Here comes the fastest public-key algorithm that most people have never heard of: It’s called NTRUEncrypt and this month was approved by the financial services standards body, the Accredited Standards ...

Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...

Encryption, the transformation of data into a form that prevents anyone unauthorized from understanding that data, is a fundamental technology that enables online commerce, secure communication, and ...