You could do worse than to confuse the meanings of "code" and "cipher"—even cryptographers sometime use the terms as though they had the same meaning. There is, however, a definite distinction between ...

The arena of creating secure environments in the hardware and software industries is somewhat shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Certainly, some types of ciphers are relatively straightforward ...

On December 11, 2020, just one day after the publication of Codebreaking: A Practical Guide, its authors, Elonka Dunin and Klaus Schmeh, got some news from fellow codebreaker Dave Oranchak. “[He] said ...

Sony announced late last week that they have invented a new encryption mechanism known as "CLEFIA," a block cipher algorithm designed to help content producers deliver "advanced copy protection" with ...