As the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) prepares to announce the winner of its competition to find the next-generation cryptographic hash algorithm, ...

Modern cryptographic systems rely on the interplay of algebraic structures and discrete mathematics to achieve confidentiality, integrity and authentication. At their core, cryptographic functions ...

An algorithm that transforms a given amount of data (the "message") into a fixed number of digits, known as the "hash," "digest" or "digital fingerprint." Hash functions are a fundamental component in ...

The newest version of a proven cryptographic system is being embedded in many of the most advanced platforms entering service in the U.S. military. The Advanced Infosec Machine (AIM) microchip is a ...

Author Nick Sullivan worked for six years at Apple on many of its most important cryptography efforts before recently joining CloudFlare, where he is a systems engineer. He has a degree in mathematics ...

For more than two decades, large corporations have woven cryptographic functions directly into the fabric of their applications, believing that vendor-supplied encryption would safeguard data ...

DNA is commonly known as the blueprint of life. However, at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress, chemist Anne Lüscher consistently removed the molecule from its biological context and viewed it as ...