European law enforcement authorities have made a large number of arrests after a joint operation involving the monitoring of organized crime communication channels after "unlocking" Sky ECC chat's ...

Asymmetric encryption (public-key algorithms) involves a key pair: a public key for encryption or signature verification and a private key for decryption or signing. This category includes RSA, Diffie ...

The research shows quantum computers may break bitcoin and ether wallet encryption with far fewer qubits than previously ...

Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use an implementation of ECC called secp256k1. According to Google, its ...

Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman is awaiting trial in France for his alleged role in the distribution of modified smartphones installed with the Sky ECC app. The 63-year-old was arrested in June ...

Sky ECC claims that cops cracked a fake version of the app being passed off by disgruntled reseller. Europol launched “major interventions” against organized crime on March 9, which it said were made ...

According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as ...

Among the evidence gathered against a notorious Serbian crime gang rounded up in February were gruesome photos sent via an encrypted messaging app popular with drug smugglers. The downfall of Sky ECC ...