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 ...

Just as RSA encryption relies on the difficulty of factoring extremely large numbers, three of the four algorithms unveiled this week use a complicated mathematical problem that’s expected to be ...

The RSA algorithm works because, when n is sufficiently large, deriving d from a known e and n will be an impractically long calculation — unless we know p, in which case we can use the shortcut.

DES An acronym for Data Encryption Standard, DES was developed by IBM. The algorithm expands a single message by up to 8 bytes. DES is a block cipher that encrypts data in blocks of 64 bits by using a ...

A search of the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, a database of 220,000 open source projects, showed that more than 4,000 projects contained encryption algorithms that required filing.