Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows data to be processed without ever being decrypted. This means a third party can run meaningful computations on encrypted information without seeing the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: Edge-cloud computing architectures are exposed to significant security challenges. Although general encryption methods can mitigate some of these concerns, they require decryption to perform ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With ...

Law enforcement experts and policymakers are due to meet on 12 September to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to scan all encrypted messages and ...

Abstract: The Paillier scheme, widely recognized as the most prevalent additive homomorphic encryption paradigm, faces significant challenges in Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to latency, ...

U.S. government information networks handling controlled unclassified and national security information are under continual cyber attack by sophisticated peer and near-peer adversaries. Evolving cyber ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...