Cloud storage providers love talking about security, but the jargon and technical language can leave users guessing. Here's a ...

Ransomware still encrypts files with a hybrid AES/RSA scheme, but the data theft and backup destruction that happen before ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world's ...

Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that means, and why the world is already preparing for the worst. A hand holding a ...

As quantum computing researchers celebrate breakthrough after breakthrough, Web3’s $4-trillion asset base faces a ticking time bomb. Last December, Google announced that their quantum Willow chip ...

Microsoft SEAL is an easy-to-use open-source (MIT licensed) homomorphic encryption library developed by the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft. Microsoft SEAL is written in modern standard C++ ...

RSA encryption protects everything from your Amazon purchases to your bank transfers. But quantum computing presents a fundamental challenge to this security. I dove into the math to understand ...

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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 ...

The study of 214 healthcare IT leaders and practice managers at organizations with fewer than 250 employees found that nearly all small practices (98%) claim their platforms "encrypt emails by default ...

Cryptography often intimidates developers due to its mathematical complexity, yet it forms the backbone of modern computer security—from HTTPS connections to payment processing. While you don't need a ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...