It’s been quite a week in the world of cryptography. For a field in which advancements are measured in the smallest of terms and major breakthroughs can take decades, the three big news stories ...

Readers of a certain age will remember those 'invisible ink' spy toys that let you write a 'secret' message which would only appear after rubbing the page with half of a lemon. Yeah, this is not that.

In the previous blog post, “Embedded Security Using Cryptography”, we looked at how cryptography can be used for securing assets in embedded systems and ensure confidentiality, integrity and ...

This article is part of EDN and EE Times’ Hot Technologies: Looking ahead to 2015 feature, where our editors examine some of the hot trends and technologies in 2014 that promise to shape technology ...

You could do worse than to confuse the meanings of "code" and "cipher"—even cryptographers sometime use the terms as though they had the same meaning. There is, however, a definite distinction between ...

The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works. Whitfield Diffie and Martin ...