In this digital era, many of us benefit from encryption multiple times a day without ever realizing it. When you visit a secured website such as your bank’s website or an online retailer, cryptography ...

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To understand the difference between quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography, it’s helpful to go back in time: In the early 1990s, Peter Shor of AT&T Bell Laboratories discovered an ...

Messaging apps like iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal are implementing quantum-safe encryption to protect chats from future quantum computers. Apple has implemented this encryption in iMessage, and ...

What is Private Key Cryptography? Private key cryptography, also known as symmetric cryptography, is like having an illusion box that locks and unlocks with just one key, and both the sender and ...

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Cryptography secures digital data using algorithms, essential in private secure communications. Cryptos use cryptographic methods like asymmetric encryption and hash functions for transactions.

The basics of post-quantum cryptography. Why we need post-quantum cryptography (PQC). What’s being done to develop it before quantum computers arrive. The term quantum computing brings images of ...

Cryptography puts the “crypto” in cryptocurrency. It has existed much longer than our digital age and has evolved like languages over the centuries. One of the most famous uses was developed by Julius ...