Abstract: This paper presents a lightweight hardware accelerator optimized for elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), supporting three standardized curves over the prime field GF($2^{255}-19$ ): ...

Bitcoin’s long-term design came under renewed scrutiny on Friday after VanEck CEO Jan van Eck questioned whether the network provides sufficient encryption and privacy during an appearance on CNBC’s ...

A research team from China have proposed a new, experimentally feasible, method to encrypt messages using the principles of quantum mechanics Quantum computers are set to revolutionise cryptography, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cy4Data Labs, the first cybersecurity company to provide in-use data protection and the industry’s only quantum-proof encryption, today announced that Datos Insights ...

A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Economist Arthur Laffer and President Donald Trump during a presentation ceremony of the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 2019. (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post) In his ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

New research by Google suggested that RSA encryption, a critical security feature used in securing Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), may be more susceptible to quantum computing attacks than previously ...

A new research paper by Google Quantum AI researcher Craig Gidney shows that breaking widely used RSA encryption may require 20 times fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The finding did ...