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February 7, 2024
Co-inventor of public-key encryption, winner of the Turing prize, and advocate for world peace—Martin Hellman shares his insights on technology, conflict, and personal development.
January 10, 2024
Software development history is rich with "Eureka!" moments that caught the world, and often the developers themselves, by surprise.
December 7, 2023
Each type of encryption has its advantages. Discover which encryption type you should use when protecting your organization's data.
October 19, 2023
Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not exist.
October 7, 2023
Quantum computers may still be years away, but it’s prudent that end-to-end encryption providers are ramping up defences
October 2, 2023
It’s no coincidence that Bitcoin emerged shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, which laid bare the vulnerabilities.
August 26, 2023
The protocol used by WhatsApp employs concepts such as elliptic curves, the elliptic discrete logarithm and modular arithmetic
August 11, 2023
This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that transpired during and after the release of information about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden in 2013. There are four perspectives: that of someone who was involved with sifting through the information to responsibly inform the public, that of a security area director of the IETF, that of a human rights expert, and that of a computer science and affiliate law professor. The purpose of th...
July 20, 2023
In 2021, we discussed a potential future shift from established public-key algorithms to so-called "post-quantum" algorithms, which may help protect sensitive information after the advent of quantum computers. We also shared some of our initial research on how to apply these algorithms to the Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC. In the time since that blog post, we've continued to explore ways to address the potential operational impact of post-quantum algorithms on ...
June 27, 2023
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an annual meeting organised by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation to bring together winners of the most prestigious scientific awards in Mathematics (Abel Prize, Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize) and Computer Science (ACM Turing Award) with a select group of highly talented young researchers from