Modern cars are essentially software on wheels—“smart” collections of automotive systems, including entertainment, braking, power, locks, window controls, and so on. As the number of electronic ...

I have a long and tattered history with cryptography. Ever since I learned about Bob and Alice I was smitten. I knew it was important because cryptographic algorithms could be used to protect ...

Every day, billions of people shop online, log into bank accounts, send emails, join video meetings, and access cloud ...

Researchers have extracted the secret key that encrypts updates to an assortment of Intel CPUs, a feat that could have wide-ranging consequences for the way the chips are used and, possibly, the way ...

"Military-grade encryption" sounds impressive in marketing materials, but the term refers to something more specific and less exclusive than it implies.

Security researchers have demonstrated a method to decrypt proprietary firmware images embedded in D-Link routers. Firmware is the piece of code that powers low-level functions on hardware devices. It ...

Encryption, for security purposes, is also known as a cipher. It is a mathematical algorithm that hides information or makes it secret. Data that is not encrypted is called plain text, while encrypted ...