• QUANTUM COMPUTING & ENCRYPTIONDecrypting Tomorrow’s Threats: Critical Infrastructure Needs Post-Quantum Protection Today

    By Jason Van der Schyff

    Some argue we still have time, since quantum computing capable of breaking today’s encryption is a decade or more away. But breakthrough capabilities, especially in domains tied to strategic advantage, rarely follow predictable timelines. The time to act on the quantum computing threat was yesterday. The next best time is now.

  • QUANTUM COMPUTING & ENCRYPTIONQuantum Computing - How it Changes Encryption as We Know It

    All of the current encryption standards were created without the consideration of quantum computing and its capabilities. Classical computing would take thousands of years, or more, to crack encryption standards such as RSA or ECC. Quantum computing has the potential to break RSA and ECC encryption within hours or even minutes. AES encryption remains the most secure standard currently in use, but quantum computers will crack it in a fraction of the time that classical computers can.

  • CYBERSECURITYExperts Explain Signal, Cybersecurity, and How a Journalist Was Sent High-Level Military Intelligence

    “The practice of not using SCIFs (Secure Compartmented Information Facilities) for the planning and implementation of conflict with a foreign state is an egregious breach of national security protocols,” said Virginia Tech’s cybersecurity expert Aron Brantly. “That the principals group was using this as a means of communications is a profound violation of US classification laws and standards and constitutes a grave threat to U.S. national security.”

  • ENCRYPTIONEncryption Breakthrough Lays Groundwork for Privacy-Preserving AI Models

    In an era where data privacy concerns loom large, a new approach in artificial intelligence (AI) could reshape how sensitive information is processed. New AI framework enables secure neural network computation without sacrificing accuracy.

  • ENCRYPTIONA Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

    By Joe Mullin

    In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking.

  • ENCRYPTIONCornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting

    By Thorin Klosowski and Andrew Crocker

    In response to the U.K. demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature in iCloud that turns on end-to-end encryption for files, backups, and more.

  • CYBERSECURITYSalt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for The "Good Guys"

    By Joe Mullin and Cindy Cohn

    If U.S. policymakers care about China and other foreign countries engaging in espionage on U.S. citizens, it’s time to speak up in favor of encryption by default. If these policymakers don’t want to see bad actors take advantage of their constituents, domestic companies, or security agencies, again—they should speak up for encryption by default.

  • CYBERSECURITYNew Technique to Improve Password Security

    Internet passwords and security updates often appear at inopportune times and are thus ignored. Researchers to devise a new, simple, and effective approach that could significantly improve cybersecurity behavior.

  • ENCRYPTIONToward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer

    By Adam Zewe

    Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography.

  • ENCRYPTIONFighting European Threats to Encryption: 2023 Year in Review

    By Christoph Schmon, Joe Mullin, and Paige Collings

    Private communication is a fundamental human right. In the online world, the best tool we have to defend this right is end-to-end encryption. Yet throughout 2023, politicians across Europe attempted to undermine encryption, seeking to access and scan our private messages and pictures.

  • ENCRYPTIONQuantum-Safe Cryptography

    Cryptography researchers have created an algorithm that can help strengthen online transactions that use end-to-end encryption against powerful attacks from quantum computers.

  • ENCRYPTIONNew Quantum Device Generates Single Photons and Encodes Information

    Innovative approach is a step toward using single photons in quantum communication and information processing. Further coupling of the photon stream into waveguides — microscopic conduits of light — would provide the photonic circuits that allow the propagation of photons in one direction. Such circuits would be the fundamental building blocks of an ultra-secure quantum internet.

  • ENCRYPTIONNew Message Encryption Scheme Inspired by the Sudoku Puzzle

    Researchers discuss a novel advance in data security in which the Japanese puzzle known as Sudoku promises a cryptographic system for text information that works even in situations where computational power is limited.

  • ENCRYPTIONThe U.K. Government Is Very Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide

    By Joe Mullin

    The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. If it passes, the Online Safety Bill will be a huge step backwards for global privacy, and democracy itself.

  • ENCRYPTIONQuantum Technology for Mobile Phone Encryption Nears

    In a few years, protection of communication with quantum encryption may become a permanent fixture in mobile phones and thus protect communication from hacking. The technology has already been demonstrated in large data transfers in the financial sector.