Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and collectors the world over. But while ...

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An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap encryption into their applications to thwart online surveillance efforts. The project, called Crypton, comes from ...

It has been long argued that the A5/1 encryption standard used to secure GSM traffic from eavesdropping is, in fact, insecure, and California based security firm H4RDW4RE is pioneering an effort to ...

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A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...

Let’s Encrypt, an organization set up to encourage broader use of encryption on the Web, has distributed 1 million free digital certificates in just three months. The digital certificates cover 2.5 ...

Crypton is a framework that lets applications encrypt data in the browser before it is sent to a remote server An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap ...