Microsoft is banning certain cryptographic functions from new computer code, ... MD4, MD5 and, in some cases, the SHA1 encryption algorithm, which is becoming “creaky at the edges,” said ...

Researchers from German security firm Recurity Labs have released a JavaScript implementation of the OpenPGP specification that allows users to encrypt and decrypt webmail messages.

Encryption is the science of codifying a message so it will be unintelligible without the code, which usually comprises an algorithm and a key. Only the message's intended recipient, who has been ...

Yahoo released the source code for a plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption of email messages, a planned data-security improvement prompted by disclosures of U.S. National Security Agency ...