For the last five years, the FIDO Alliance -- led by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (with other companies in tow) -- has been blazing a trail toward a future where passwords are no longer necessary in ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...

Do your favorite sites even support passkeys? Join us on a typical passkey journey from discovery to registration to authentication to deletion. Read now Passkeys are often described as a passwordless ...

Public key encryption has long been a cornerstone in securing digital communications, allowing messages to be encrypted with a recipient’s publicly available key while only being decrypted by the ...

In the context of cryptography, a public key is an alphanumeric string that serves as an essential component of asymmetric encryption algorithms. It is typically derived from a private key, which must ...

Public key encryption with equality test (PKEET) represents a significant advance in cryptographic research. This technology allows a designated tester to determine whether two independently generated ...

Public-key encryption is essential for secure communications, eliminating the need for pre-shared keys. In the information age, our digital lives, from online payments to private communications, ...