Neal Koblitz is a mathematician who, starting in the 1980s, became fascinated by mathematical questions in cryptography. In his article "The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography," ...

Post-quantum identity-based encryption has been solved from isogeny-based assumptions for the first time, as researchers from IBM Research and IIT Madras publish a cryptographic breakthrough that ...

"Large bureaucracies, with the power that the computer gives them, become more powerful," said New York Times reporter David Burnham in a 1983 C-Span interview about his book The Rise of the Computer ...

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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Most executives are not losing sleep over cryptographic algorithms, and they should not have ...

Hybrid hash function post-quantum cryptography research: a new paper on IACR ePrint formalizes a construction whose collision resistance simultaneously requires breaking both the elliptic-curve ...

OpenAI's Astra AI solves 10 decade-old math problems in cryptography, quantum computing, and geometry, sparking debate on ...

A simple geometric idea has been used to power advances in information theory, cryptography and even blockchain technology. But while the work has generated a lot of excitement among pure ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Cryptography is just about as old as written communication itself, and mathematics has long supplied methods for the cryptographic toolbox. Starting in the 1970s, increasingly sophisticated ...