With algorithmic decryption advancements by cybercriminals threatening standard cryptographic algorithms, business leaders must ensure their algorithms are not susceptible to being cracked.

Strong symmetric ciphers, algorithms that use the same key for encryption and decryption (AES, Blowfish, etc.) will also be easier to crack with quantum computers, but only by roughly a factor of two.

Generally speaking, encryption algorithms come in two flavors, symmetric and public key. Symmetric algorithms, such as Blowfish, use the same key for encryption and decryption. Like a password, you ...

Security through encryption Dec 1, 2002 12:00 PM, By Kevin McNamara, CNE Sometimes it is necessary to keep certain data files private,whether the files are on a disk or perhaps sent over a network ...