A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

A wise man once said, “encryption is easy, key management is hard.” PGP recognized this and built a great key management platform to manage encryption keys for mobile devices, PCs, email, mainframes, ...

Lucas Ropek covers cybersecurity and privacy for Gizmodo. You can follow his coverage here, and email story ideas and tips to [email protected]. Concern about the powers of quantum computers (which ...

A method built into an encryption system that is used to decrypt the data in an emergency. The encryption backdoor is theoretically only available to legitimate governments. Nevertheless, backdoors ...

This article appears in the Aug. 27, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. As card-security breaches continue to hamper the payments industry, the parties involved in the transaction process are ...

Data encryption is a hot-button topic with businesses throughout Michigan and the U.S. Pure Entropy Technologies is working with commercial clients and the federal government in this area. The company ...