The World's Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke Werner Koch's code powers the email encryption programs around the world. If only somebody would pay him for the work.

An open-source program for encrypted communications has a serious flaw that could let Internet attackers slip into servers running the software, its creators and a security firm say.

At issue is the encryption of basic cable channels. In 1994 the FCC mandated that cable operators transmit their basic tiers of programming unencrypted in order to increase accessibility.

If you bank online or sign into work remotely using a virtual private network, your data may not be safe. A flaw in the encryption program OpenSSL could expose much of the encrypted traffic.

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source full-disk encryption program that's the direct successor to the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announces today a multi-year research effort called the Homomorphic Encryption ...

Yes, and this technology, called Homomorphic Encryption, will underpin a new US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program that both Intel and Microsoft just announced a new ...

New mobile encryption software meant to give jihadists an edge over Western intelligence agencies has been released by an Islamist group that produces propaganda for terrorist groups like al Qaeda ...

Great good God. It seems that having an encryption program on your computer has the potential to become evidence that you are doing something illegal. My old colleague Declan McCullagh has written ...

For cable operators that choose to encrypt the basic programming, subscribers must be provided set-top boxes without any additional service charges related to the equipment.