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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted and symmetric encryption algorithm standard used while securing data. It is a cryptographic standard, which was established by the US National ...

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 ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said it’s time to have “a discussion” about the proliferation of encryption that locks out even law enforcement. But the California Democrat warned against any hasty ...

This article appears in the Aug. 27, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. As card-security breaches continue to hamper the payments industry, the parties involved in the transaction process are ...