The technology community has a definition of an encryption back door. The government has its own. A judge’s order Tuesday night compelling Apple to assist law enforcement officials in unlocking the ...

The Federal Government is yet to properly define in its encryption bill what a systemic weakness means, and the question came up more than once for discussion during the second hearing on the bill ...

The debate over the Federal Government's recently passed encryption law is dead serious for the most part, but Melbourne University academics Dr Chris Culnane and Associate Professor Vanessa Teague ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and chief technology officer at Resilient Systems, Inc., is the author, most recently, of "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

A wise man once said, “encryption is easy, key management is hard.” PGP recognized this and built a great key management platform to manage encryption keys for mobile devices, PCs, email, mainframes, ...

To the casual user, the shift can barely be noticed. But to digital rights advocates and policy experts, the rollback on end-to-end encryption represents a seismic, alarming capitulation ...