Technology explained: What is encryption? Technology explained: What is encryption? Encryption is a way of scrambling computer data so it can only be read by the people you want.

Encryption — or cryptography, as it's sometimes called — is a way of scrambling a message to make it unreadable.

Encryption is commonly used to secure online banking sessions and to protect credit-card data. But for the average computer user, it remains a mystery.

Encrypting your computer is basic security hygiene. Here's how to encrypt your hard drive on both Mac and Windows computers.

What apps are encrypted and what aren’t? Many messaging apps use encryption in some way, but end-to-end encryption is widely applied by WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage.

Essentially, VPNs use encryption to make sure that third parties can’t read your internet traffic while it’s travelling between your computer and whatever online service you’re accessing.

In an era where cyber threats are ever-evolving, ensuring the security of our data is paramount. From quantum-resistant ...

Active Cypher built a mini-quantum computer (repurposed hardware running quantum algorithms) to prove that conventional encryption (RSA + AES) is nearing ...

If the encryption has been broken, nation-states with quantum encryption could, in theory, not only decrypt encrypted phone calls but potentially change information in encrypted systems while the ...