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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you do when you need to perform computations on large data sets while preserving their confidentiality? In other words, you would like to gather analytics, for example, on user data, without ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...