The problem with most forms of encryption being used today is that once data is encrypted, it becomes frozen or fixed in place—meaning it can’t be operated on or “processed” without first decrypting ...

Microsoft has helpfully provided a real-world example showing why mandating "back doors" so that authorities can bypass encryption to access digital data is a very bad idea. The fact that this example ...

End-to-end encryption secures messages before they're sent and decrypts them only after arriving at a recipient's device.

Data breaches are now the new norm and have reached epidemic proportions. Whether you work for a government agency, financial institution, health care company or private corporation, no organization ...

Requiring that government data be stored domestically and handled by U.S. citizens is counterproductive. It’s 11 p.m. Do you know where your data is? If your enterprise has transitioned to the cloud ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In the Tech sector there are few areas of the market that are as ...

This chapter excerpted from Hardware Implementation of Finite-Field Arithmetic, gives an example of finite-field application—namely, the implementation of the scalar product (point multiplication) ...