After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth ...

North Korean hackers used fake recruiter lures and npm packages to target crypto developers in a large-scale supply-chain ...

Cypherpunks don’t just write code. Code is meaningless without users, advocates, and educators — and, at times, ...

Some books are mathematically rigorous (e.g. Foundations of Cryptography, Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness), others more applied (e.g. Applied Cryptography, Serious ...

ABSTRACT: We show that any semiprime number can be factorized as the product of two prime numbers in the form of a kernel factor pair of two out of 48 root numbers. Specifically, each natural number ...

What exactly did El Salvador do? The government redistributed roughly 6,274 BTC (around $678 million at publication time) from one address into 14 fresh addresses, each capped at 500 BTC, as a ...

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 ...

Citrix added a handful of offerings to its NetScaler platform designed to strengthen enterprise data security. Chief among the updates is support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Initially teased ...

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand future attacks from quantum computers in a move aimed at jump-starting what’s likely to be the most ...

Agencies are being encouraged to consider post-quantum cryptographic standards in the acquisition process, as part of a multiyear push to secure sensitive data from exploitation. The Cybersecurity and ...

If you cannot activate Microsoft 365 on a shared computer, you can use the Microsoft 365 Shared Computer Activation (SCA) Troubleshooter to fix the issue on a Windows 11/10 PC. It uses the Get Help ...