Never in history have more people had access to advanced encryption in their homes, offices, and pockets. The most basic online transactions and communications that Internet users conduct every day ...

Microsoft has helpfully provided a real-world example showing why mandating "back doors" so that authorities can bypass encryption to access digital data is a very bad idea. The fact that this example ...

This spring, text messages got a lot more private. In April, the world’s most popular messaging service, WhatsApp, announced it would use end-to-end encryption by default for all users, making it ...

Strong encryption is key to good data security. But how strong is too strong? Is there a point at which encryption jeopardizes security rather than preserving it? Should companies be allowed to create ...

Many discussions of “hybrid encryption” begin with some debate about just what this means. Hybrid encryption in general refers to the combined use of public-key (asymmetric) cryptography with ...

SSE-C stands (well, stood) for “Server Side Encryption- Customer-provided keys”. It allowed you to provide an encryption key ...

Quantum computers stand a good chance of changing the face computing, and that goes double for encryption. For encryption methods that rely on the fact that brute-forcing the key takes too long with ...

The way governments deal with cybersecurity monitoring has never been more at the forefront of industry discussions, particularly with ongoing debate in the UK around the Investigatory Powers Bill ...

Yesterday, Ars spoke with IBM Senior Research Scientist Flavio Bergamaschi about the company’s recent successful field trials of Fully Homomorphic Encryption. We suspect many of you will have the same ...