Everyone who has used the Internet has used encryption. The technology—boiled down, it’s just math—is everywhere. It plays a central role in how the Web is secured. Encryption codes messages ...

Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data when it's stored, or as it has become popular to say, "is at rest." ...

This article covers the attack surface of application-layer encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how WebCrypto helps.

Encryption is a function on certain apps and devices that allows users to send and receive private messages.

Encryption — or cryptography, as it's sometimes called — is a way of scrambling a message to make it unreadable.

This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter addressed to the company's customers, though the document read more like a public address aimed at the government. Following the Dec. 2 home ...

Encryption and user privacy never seems far away from the news headlines these days, as the debate rages on about the extent to which governments and police forces should be able to snoop on what ...

Just as every company is now a technology company because you can't be in business without technology, every company is a data company - but most companies don't know about data or what to do with it.

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a type of communication system that allows two parties to send and receive information or messages privately, while preventing others from eavesdropping on the ...

Data encryption could help to rebuild public trust in democracy by creating a greater sense of connection between the electorate and the results of the elections in which they take part. [Read More: ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Matthew Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, to find out what breaking into an iphone's encryption really means.