Computation pervades today’s world. From banking, to romance, to shopping, and even warfare, computers form one of the pillars of human civilization. However, there has been a lot of worry about ...

Twenty years before the Internet would create a need for it, a public-key cryptographic standard was discovered and patented by Whitfield Diffie, along with another student and a professor at Stanford ...

Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates ...