Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Following the Tuesday release of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s first standardized post-quantum cryptographic ...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has vigorously denied that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) tampered with NIST’s process of vetting and choosing encryption ...

However, Quantum Day (Q-Day) is different. Q-Day is the moment a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break the ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its Federal Information Process Standards for post-quantum cryptography, a new set of standards that ...

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted and symmetric encryption algorithm standard used while securing data. It is a cryptographic standard, which was established by the US National ...

It was only a matter of time before we learned that the NSA has managed to thwart much of the encryption that protects telephone and online communication, but new revelations show the extent to which ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology says it will continue to create the "strongest possible" standards, following reports of surveillance-related meddling by the National Security Agency.

Following revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) covert influence on computer security standards, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, announced earlier this ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new, stronger data-encryption standard intended to replace an aging standard first adopted in 1977. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is intended to ...

A research team has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks. Their attack, referred to as Efail, proved successful in 25 out of 35 tested email ...