A number of you have e-mailed in to report that the Advanced Encryption Standard (aka, AES) encryption appears to be compromised (<i>andy fat bastard</i> was first, so he wins). The issue is whether ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting.

In the last several days, headlines have been plastered all over the internet regarding Chinese researchers using D-Wave quantum computers to hack RSA, AES, and "military-grade encryption." This is ...

You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...

A few weeks ago, a U.N. Special Rapporteur solicited comments for a report on the relationship between free expression and the use of encryption and anonymity online. The report that he is writing ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently proposed standardizing the block and key size used in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to 256 bits. According to NIST, ...

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted and symmetric encryption algorithm standard used while securing data. It is a cryptographic standard, which was established by the US National ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...