Where would the media be if it suddenly had to base its reporting and commentary on actual information and analysis, instead of relying on sensational headlines and divisive rhetoric that pits one ...

Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the second installment of a blog series taking you ...

In what now seems to be a daily ritual—as routine as eating breakfast each morning—the continuing flow of leaks from inside the White House is one part ironic and one part disconcerting. A quick ...

For President Obama, members of Congress, the director of the FBI, and Republican presidential candidates, the subject of encryption has become a popular talking point. In short, it is a crucial ...

Code-based cryptography is a promising branch of post-quantum cryptography that exploits the inherent complexity of decoding linear error-correcting codes. Traditional schemes, such as the McEliece ...

The concluding words of Unsolved! are a call to action. Craig Bauer, a US mathematician and editor-in-chief of the journal Cryptologia, ends his hefty history of cryptography by noting that even as he ...

The theory that statesman and scientist Francis Bacon was the ghostwriter behind Shakespeare, and embedded the Bard's plays with ciphers, had a major influence on modern cryptography. William F.

Cryptography secures digital data using algorithms, essential in private secure communications. Cryptos use cryptographic methods like asymmetric encryption and hash functions for transactions.