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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...

What is AWS KMS? AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a cloud service that allows organizations to generate, control, and maintain keys that secure their data. AWS KMS allows organizations to have a ...

Ransomware authors are using the bitcoin blockchain, which serves as the cryptocurrency’s public transaction ledger, to deliver decryption keys to victims. The technique, which removes the burden of ...

Typically asymmetric keys are used to encrypt symmetric keys. It's a lot faster to decode using something like AES, than encrypting very large binaries with asymmetric keys. The idea is the AES key ...

A new vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips can allow a determined attacker to access a user's data by stealing the cryptographic keys — and a fix could considerably impact encryption performance.

Steve Orrin is the federal CTO for Intel Corporation. He has held architectural and leadership positions at Intel, driving strategy and projects on identity, anti-malware, HTML5 security, cloud and ...

Developers shouldn't use JSON Web Tokens or JSON Web Encryption in their applications at all, lest their private keys get stolen A vulnerability in a JSON-based web encryption protocol could allow ...

The right to privacy is further threatened by African governments passing laws heavily restricting the use of encryption. This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 21 October 2021.