Though US Law may prohibit the NSA from collecting our phone data (or demanding encryption keys) without a court order, the ability to decode these encrypted conversations own their own means they ...

Encryption, at its core, is similar to those decoder rings you played with when you were younger. You have a message, you encode it using a secret cipher, and only other people with the cipher can ...

The heads of the National Security Agency and the world’s most valuable company appeared to try to make nice over their contrasting views on encryption.

Big technology companies, like Apple, Meta (WhatsApp), and privacy-focused services such as Signal, are facing increasing pressure to help law enforcement agencies decode encrypted messages ...

The extent of the NSA’s collection of cellphone signals and its use of tools to decode encryption are not clear from a top-secret document provided by former contractor Edward Snowden.