It’s RSA week in San Francisco, so that means lots of announcements, even if they’re only of the “I’m waving so you know I’m still here” variety. I fondly remember one such announcement from a few ...

Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, ...

An encryption method for transmitting data that uses key pairs, comprising one private and one public key. Public key cryptography is called "asymmetric encryption" because both keys are not equal. A ...