Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

The problem with most forms of encryption being used today is that once data is encrypted, it becomes frozen or fixed in place—meaning it can’t be operated on or “processed” without first decrypting ...

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features. Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep ...

If company data is stored with a cloud provider, they usually handle encryption. However, for confidential data, you should ...

I'm sure many of you have had mixed experiences with encryption techniques, architectures, and implementations that, in the wake of Heartbleed and the Dual_EC_DRBG scandal, point out the importance of ...

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages. If you ...

Yesterday, Ars spoke with IBM Senior Research Scientist Flavio Bergamaschi about the company’s recent successful field trials of Fully Homomorphic Encryption. We suspect many of you will have the same ...

Virtual private networks use slick marketing terms to charm potential users, but you can easily get tangled up when trying to pick it all apart. The language describing encryption methods is thick ...