One-way functions are central to cryptography and the digital world. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed such a function for the physical world. Their new technology is based on a pool of one ...

The National Security Agency has announced the winning entry to its ninth annual Best Cybersecurity Research Paper Competition. The winning paper was written by Yanyi Liu from Cornell University and ...

(TNS) — When we check email, log in to our bank accounts, or exchange messages on Signal, our passwords and credentials are protected through encryption, a locking scheme that uses secrets to disguise ...

Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not exist. When we check email, log in to our bank accounts, or ...