A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Digital signatures may not be as hard to forge as previously thought. Scuttlebutt from the ponytail and Birkenstock set is that the algorithm most commonly used for creating a unique digital ...

Imagine a world where the most widely-used cryptographic methods turn out to be broken: quantum computers allow encrypted Internet data transactions to become readable by anyone who happened to be ...

Selznick Scientific Software LLC has updated PasswordWallet to version 2.5 incorporating several changes. PasswordWallet provides a secure place to store all your usernames, passwords, PIN numbers or ...

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection ...