An aging core internet protocol is finally getting the ax by Microsoft Corp. But it wasn’t just last month’s announcement that the software vendor was ending support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 of ...

For those counting, 2030 is five short years to deprecate most of the encryption for data in motion worldwide. NIST warns that “Historically, the journey from algorithm standardization to full ...

Network encryption was designed for a world in which adversaries needed to break cryptography in real time to extract value.

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Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the “most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the ...

Apple is creating a new form of encryption for iMessage. This new layer of encryption aims to prevent harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Today’s encryption is good enough to defend against most ...

European security researchers have found an alarming new vulnerability in the most common forms of email encryption. The attack, described in a report published Monday morning, lets bad actors inject ...

The Signal Foundation, maker of the Signal Protocol that encrypts messages sent by more than a billion people, has rolled out an update designed to prepare for a very real prospect that’s never far ...

Sun announced today that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management API be used as a universal way to allow encrypting devices to communicate with ...

A protocol designed and promoted by the British government for encrypting voice calls has a by-design weakness built into it that could allow for mass surveillance, according to a University College ...

A privacy promise or just a marketing buzzword?