If you use the best secure messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp, you may have seen that messages you send on these apps are protected by end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption (or E2EE) is a ...

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Many discussions of “hybrid encryption” begin with some debate about just what this means. Hybrid encryption in general refers to the combined use of public-key (asymmetric) cryptography with ...

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If you're shopping around for a VPN, you may have come across providers who tout "military grade encryption", but what does ...

Talk of backdoors in encrypted services is once again doing the rounds after reports emerged that the U.K. government is seeking to force Apple to open up iCloud's end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) device ...

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