THE long-running battle between coders and code-breakers could soon be over, as a breakthrough in quantum cryptography has brought uncrackable codes a step closer. To exchange a coded message, the ...

Id Quantique SA, World Internet Secure Key (WiseKey) SA and the International Organization for the Security of Electronic Transactions an-nounced a partnership at the ITU Telecom World 2003 conference ...

Journalist and historian McKay (The Secret Lives of Codebreakers) offers a sweeping examination of codes, ciphers, and other types of encrypted communication from ancient Greece to today’s ...

Later this week on 28 January, the National Museum of Computing will host a virtual talk exploring the world of unsolvable encryption codes. The “uncrackable” encrypted messages found in a number of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly six decades after they went to war, 29 Navajo Indians were honored Thursday for creating the uncrackable code used by the Marines during World War II's fiercest battles.

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who used his native language to create an uncrackable code to help win World War II, died Monday at the age of 94.

SHORT passwords can be made as safe as more convoluted ones thanks to a new digital protocol that makes them impossible to crack. The protocol could be used with wireless devices such as cellphones.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Uncrackable encryption based on quantum-key distribution could soon come to a network near you. Two Swiss companies last week joined hands with a trade organization in pledging to ...