29 news & feature articles results for "cryptography mathematics"

The encryption software kingpin will support elliptic curve cryptography, a rival technology to its own algorithms.

Posted by Tim Clark

Security guru Bruce Schneier pokes fun at National Cyber Security Month and says when it comes to privacy, marketers are scarier than governments or criminals.

Posted by Elinor Mills

Certicom gives users the option of using its elliptic curve cryptography rather than the more common RSA code.

Posted by Tim Clark

Sun Microsystems donates new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet.

Posted by Stephen Shankland

Security technologist Bruce Schneier explains that while cryptography is one of the most basic tools of computer security, it barely existed as an academic discipline 30 years ago.

Posted by Bruce Schneier

Computer scientists are developing cryptography techniques that promise powerful new tools for verifying computerized voting results--but will they work in real elections?

Posted by Declan McCullagh

Cryptography experts say that the U.S. government's selection of an Advanced Encryption Standard made the past year a good one for privacy and security.

Posted by Robert Lemos

Attorneys and academics are still trying to figure out what the most recent federal court ruling on cryptography means for the high-tech industry.

Posted by Dan Goodin

Computer scientists in India crack an age-old math problem to help quickly prove whether a figure is a prime number--a vital step in computer cryptography.

Posted by Sandeep Junnarkar

q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.

Posted by Elinor Mills