The inventors of public key cryptography have won the 2015 Turing Award, just as a contentious debate kicks off in Washington over how much protection encryption should really provide. The Association ...

Modern digital security relies heavily on encryption algorithms grounded in difficult math problems, which is the backbone of what’s known as public-key infrastructure (PKI). From securing websites to ...

Public-key encryption is essential for secure communications, eliminating the need for pre-shared keys. In the information age, our digital lives, from online payments to private communications, ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...