Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician ...

Quantum computing represents an existential threat to modern cryptographic defenses, particularly for non-human identities—machines, IoT devices, workloads, applications, services and APIs—which rely ...

Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...

There is an abundance of free encryption tools, but if you’re running Windows, BitLocker is the only tool most people need, ...

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Encryption secures information by translating it into computer code that’s unreadable to those who don’t have the means to access the information. These means of access can include passwords, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...