Hardware faults are leaking hundreds of supposedly unbreakable encryption keys on to the internet, researchers have found – and spy agencies may be exploiting the loophole to read secret messages. RSA ...

Republican senatators have proposed a new bill that would end the use of unbreakable encryption by tech companies on the basis that it helps “terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit ...

The discovery of quantum mechanics opened the door to fundamentally new ways of communicating, processing, and protecting data. With a quantum revolution well underway, long unimaginable opportunities ...

In theory, we've had this licked for hundreds of years. We've long known how to create totally unbreakable encryption, ciphers so strong that no amount of modern supercomputing power could brute force ...

The quest for unbreakable encryption may have finally succeeded. A team of researchers has created a tool capable of making any program impervious to attacks. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

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Companies such as Apple and Google will be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new UK laws. Set to be unveiled on Wednesday (November 4), internet and social media companies will no ...