Since encryption algorithms were made available for public use decades ago and today’s computing systems store exponentially increasing amounts of our sensitive data, one would assume that every ...

However, it’s important to know that your data doesn’t have to be compromised. There are already post-quantum algorithms to protect against attacks from quantum computers.

Our most popular encryption algorithms are based on mathematics impossible for supercomputers to solve but pose no meaningful challenge for the advanced technology of future quantum computers.

Encryption works by scrambling data or text into what appears to be nonsense, using an algorithm and a key that only the sender and recipient can use to unlock the data. These algorithms can, in ...

McKay noted there are seven variants in the Ascon family. Two very important ones are authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) and hashing. AEAD allows a message to be encrypted while ...

Most data cryptography use these components and are also calledkey-based algorithms. Another method, called a restricted algorithm,does not use a key, but rather defines a specific encryption ...

IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm was produced by Xuejia Lai and James Massey. It is fairly fast, is considered secure, and it is also resistant to both linear and differential analysis.

Public-key encryption algorithms rely on this fact to ensure the security of the data they encrypt. It is the impractical amount of time involved, not the impossibility of the calculation, which ...

The algorithm, sometimes referred to as single DES, uses a 56-bit key to encrypt blocks of data, and can produce up to 72 trillion unique keys.

The need for strong data encryption won’t go away, and the encryption challenges will only increase as quantum computing emerges over the next several years. In the meantime, innovative new encryption ...

Like older encryption algorithms such as DES (Data Encryption Standard) and 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard), the purpose of the AES algorithm is to scramble and substitute input data based ...

More by Sophie Bushwick This article was originally published with the title “New Encryption System Protects Data from Quantum Computers” in SA Space & Physics Vol. 2 No. 6 (December 2019) ...