For much of the past decade, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) lived primarily in academic journals and standards committees. That changed in August 2024, when the National Institute of Standards and ...

Powerful quantum computers may be closer than scientists thought. To unleash the technology’s full power, scientists have long thought that quantum computers with millions of quantum bits, or qubits, ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...

B² Cryptography Replaces Public Key Infrastructure Entirely — Eliminating Certificate Authorities, Asymmetric Cryptography, Quantum Migration Risks, and the ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as ...

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their secrets, proofs are not always so simple—but a new result significantly closes ...

Tongsuo-Java-SDK is a Java Security Provider (JSP) that implements parts of the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) and Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE). It uses Tongsuo to provide cryptographic ...

The Cipher class, central to the javax.crypto package, abstracts encryption/decryption through a provider-based architecture that delegates to pluggable CipherSpi implementations for ...

A recent upgrade to the RansomHouse ransomware operation has added new concerns for enterprise defenders, introducing a multi-layered encryption update to the group’s double-extortion RaaS model. Also ...

Abstract: In this paper, the security of electronic commerce and the security methods are introduced firstly. Then, the history of Java security architecture and its design principles are described.

Bus benches with dividers on Second Avenue. (Photo by Calista Stocker/Times of San Diego) In 2017, the Metropolitan Transit System spent $1.4 million upgrading bus stop benches throughout the county.