Everyone who has used the Internet has used encryption. The technology—boiled down, it’s just math—is everywhere. It plays a central role in how the Web is secured. Encryption codes messages ...

Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data when it's stored, or as it has become popular to say, "is at rest." ...

Despite the code delivery problem, doing application-layer encryption in the browser significantly improves the overall security of any system. The reason for this is that security isn’t all-or ...

Encryption is a function on certain apps and devices that allows users to send and receive private messages. End-to-end encryption allows people to communicate with each other on certain apps or ...

Alice wishes to send a private communication to Bob. Alice uses Bob’s public key to derive an encryption key (secret) and what’s known as a message authentication code or MAC.

Encryption — or cryptography, as it's sometimes called — is a way of scrambling a message to make it unreadable.

This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter addressed to the company's customers, though the document read more like a public address aimed at the government. Following the Dec. 2 home ...

Encryption and user privacy never seems far away from the news headlines these days, as the debate rages on about the extent to which governments and police forces should be able to snoop on what ...

Just as every company is now a technology company because you can't be in business without technology, every company is a data company - but most companies don't know about data or what to do with it.

Homomorphic encryption offers the ability to perform additions on encrypted data, which unlocks a number of potentially useful scenarios. It becomes possible to review salary data and calculate the ...

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the ...