Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

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Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

The last decade-plus has seen a wealth of advancements designed to secure data at the microprocessor level, but a team of academic researchers recently punched through those defenses with a tiny ...

X has finally revealed its long-promised chat platform, which replaces the service's basic DM functionality with features more like the messaging capabilities on other mainstream apps. The update adds ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

AES-NI is a CPU instruction set that accelerates AES encryption/decryption using hardware-based processing. Provides 3x–10x performance improvement over software-only AES implementations. Enhances ...

The Irish Communications Interception and Lawful Access Bill is still in development, with drafting yet to occur, but the Global Encryption Coalition wants it scrapped now. A privacy coalition has ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

In context: End-to-end encryption can greatly enhance security in email communications, but it demands commitment from both parties. Google is now simplifying the process with a new message exchange ...