Carbon nanotubes are small and can be semiconducting, which makes lots of people excited about using them as a replacement for features etched in silicon. But there are two big problems: the reactions ...

In September 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that American and British intelligence agencies had successfully cracked much of the online encryption internet users used to keep their ...

Even though a vulnerability in the OpenSSL library used to generate key pairs on Debian-based Linux distributions has been fixed, IT administrators will be hard-pressed to ensure each key is ...

There will be an app for that: making random numbers on a mobile phone. (Courtesy: Marketa Michalkova) Do you feel nervous when you make a credit-card transaction using your mobile phone? Your worries ...

The product is supposed to eliminate traditional software vulnerabilities and protect against electromagnetic interception through physical isolation. It uses something called a physical entropy ...

Carbon nanotubes will randomly seed themselves into properly designed circuitry. Seems a pretty novel application of nanotubes to produce hardware RNGs. Maybe I am weird though but one thing that has ...