The technology community has a definition of an encryption back door. The government has its own. A judge’s order Tuesday night compelling Apple to assist law enforcement officials in unlocking the ...

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 method built into an encryption system that is used to decrypt the data in an emergency. The encryption backdoor is theoretically only available to legitimate governments. Nevertheless, backdoors ...

The Federal Government is yet to properly define in its encryption bill what a systemic weakness means, and the question came up more than once for discussion during the second hearing on the bill ...

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 ...

This article appears in the Aug. 27, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. As card-security breaches continue to hamper the payments industry, the parties involved in the transaction process are ...

In today’s fast-changing world of business regulations and data security, many leaders face privacy and protection challenges they aren’t fully prepared to handle. Most understand the basics of ...