Bruce Schneier contends that the strongest security systems benefit from redundancy and variety. And as the Homeland Security Department consolidates a number of different agencies, Schneier warns ...

Security guru says Snowden exposed larger problem: 'Dichotomy of the societal benefits of big data versus the individual risks of personal data' The ongoing revelations of governmental electronic ...

Twenty years before the Internet would create a need for it, a public-key cryptographic standard was discovered and patented by Whitfield Diffie, along with another student and a professor at Stanford ...

At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this month, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash functions. These results, while mathematically significant, aren’t cause for ...

At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this week, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash functions. These results, while mathematically significant, aren’t cause for ...