If true, they can now reverse engineer the private keys that can decrypt all data they have captured that was encrypted using RSA (and possibly other asymmetric encryption algorithms).” ...

RSA Security says it has released its public key encryption algorithm into the public domain, waiving its patent rights.

Previously, experts calculated that factoring RSA-2048 with quantum computers employing a quantum factoring method known as Shor’s algorithm would require 13,436 qubits.

A recent research paper makes the claim that the RSA cryptographic algorithm can be broken with a quantum algorithm. Skeptics warn: don’t believe everything you read.

Ottawa, Canada, May 9, 2007 - Security IP provider Elliptic today announced that it has completed the 2.0 release of its Ellipsys security software. This release upgrades the algorithms implemented to ...

Why Encryption Matters in App Security Encryption is essential to data security, protecting sensitive information from theft through strong algorithms, key management, and layered defenses.

The AES key is then encrypted too by using RSA, an asymmetric encryption algorithm. The RSA algorithm uses a public and private key pair instead of a single key.

Today, [Henry Schmale] writes to us about his small contribution to making cryptography easier to understand – lifting the veil on the RSA asymmetric encryption technique through an RSA calculator.