With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way mathematical function that makes deriving a private key from a public key effectively impossible for traditional computers. Shor’s ...

For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions. By John Markoff In November 1952, a Harvard sophomore, ...