A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Secretary of Commerce Don Evans announced December 4, 2001, the approval of a new information technology encryption standard for the federal government. The Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES, also ...

Trust in the security industry has taken a blow with a recent report that RSA was paid by the U.S. National Security Agency to provide a way to crack its encryption. [Lessons for CSOs in Snowden ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The DES is dead. The AES will take its place. The Commerce ...