Encryption is essential for protecting data, with both symmetric and asymmetric methods offering unique advantages.

This uses the SHA-3 symmetric-key algorithm, which is the latest in the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) family. Maxim Integrated is the first to have a SHA3-256 secure authentication device in production.

The public-key algorithm is used for distributing the key and the symmetric-key algorithm handles the bulk of the communications encryption. The astute reader may have noticed that the public-key ...

In a symmetric algorithm, the key to encrypt and decrypt is the same, while in an asymmetric algorithm, the keys are different, with the encryption key being called the public key and the ...

That’s why there is serious work underway to design new types of algorithms that are resistant to even the most powerful quantum computer we can imagine. What do these algorithms even do?

MIT researchers designed a computationally efficient algorithm for machine learning with symmetric data that also requires fewer data for training than conventional approaches. Their work could ...

ASC X9 has released a new standard, X9.24-3, that allows the use of the AES DUKPT algorithm to enhance security in retail financial transactions.

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

Symmetric algorithms are fast and well-understood, and the good news is that symmetric cryptography is not severely threatened by quantum algorithms.

The RSA algorithm is a feast of genius that combines theoretical math and practical coding into working asymmetric cryptography. Here’s how it works.