BERLIN (The NYT) -- A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, saying it was his ...

While your phone’s encryption protects the files on the device, plenty of data finds its way out into the ether.

SAN FRANCISCO – The ongoing battle between the FBI and Apple over the government's demand that the Cupertino, Calif. company subvert the encryption on an iPhone associated with one of the San ...

An algorithm from the 1990s used to encrypt mobile phone data was deliberately weakened to allow eavesdropping, claims a team of cryptanalysts. It is possible the flaw could still allow access to ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Matthew Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, to find out what breaking into an iphone's encryption really means.

End-to-end encryption might finally be coming to RCS messaging between iPhone and Android devices, based on code in the iOS ...

What is encryption and what does it do? Information flows across the internet through local wireless or phone data, and then through phone and undersea cables, passing through lots of different ...

RSA encryption uses an ingeniously simple mathematical premise. Recent news stories suggesting it's been cracked are an exaggeration. We're not there yet.