When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ...

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 ...

Image encryption and associated security algorithms have become critical in protecting visual data as digital communication networks expand. Contemporary methods combine traditional cryptographic ...

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Encryption forms the backbone of digital security but now faces a fundamental challenge: the emergence of quantum computers.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption. The HQC algorithm is intended to serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm ...

A new version of the Petya disc-encrypting ransomware has been released that fixes a bug that previously caused some weakness in its encryption algorithm. According to Hasherezade, a security analyst ...