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 ...

A scrambling technique scripted by two Belgians has been chosen as the proposed U.S. government standard to protect sensitive data and help spur the digital economy, the Commerce Department said. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Commerce rolled out a new U.S. encryption standard for the federal government on Tuesday (Dec. 4) in hopes that industry will also embrace it. The Advanced Encryption ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new, stronger data-encryption standard intended to replace an aging standard first adopted in 1977. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is intended to ...

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 ...