Each year, about 4.2 million people around the world die as a result of surgical complications that occurred within 30 days following a procedure. Not only do these surgical complications take many ...

A replacement for one of the most-used algorithms in computer security has finally been chosen after a competition between cryptographers that ran for five years. The competition was designed to ...

In July, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies selected four cryptography algorithms as national standards for public key security in order to prepare for an era of quantum computers, ...

The spy agency pushed the federal technology standard-bearer NIST to include a flawed, little used algorithm in a 2006 cryptography standard Editor's note (11/16/15): Following the terrorist attacks ...