In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds — Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary software.

Networking giant Cisco is open-sourcing an experimental cipher that could help preserve privacy in the cloud and the Internet of Things. Common ciphers used in today’s encryption tend to generate ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...

Symmetric encryption uses one secret key for both encryption and decryption (for example, AES or ChaCha20 ciphers). Symmetric algorithms are fast and well-understood, and the good news is that ...

The adoption of devices for the internet of things will depend very much on their communication to the Internet being secure. There are many aspects to being able to secure connections between client ...

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Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.