Digital security currently relies on difficult equations to protect data. For example, when you use a credit card online, the ...

The security and privacy of global commerce and communication depend on forms of encryption that would take classical ...

Explore 25 famously unsolved ciphers and codes that have baffled experts for centuries. From ancient scripts to modern ...

Anthropic said its Mythos model—which currently remains available only to a select group of trusted users—was able to advance ...

In 1994, a Bell Labs mathematician named Peter Shor cooked up an algorithm with frightening potential. By vastly reducing the computing resources required to factor large numbers—to break them down ...

A group of Chinese researchers has claimed to be able to break a widely used encryption scheme with a quantum computer that already exists, creating a possible boon for surveillance and a crisis for ...

In a new approach to security that unites technology and art, EPFL researchers have combined silver nanostructures with polarized light to yield a range of brilliant colors, which can be used to ...

The Web's leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization's push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.