AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

Jim Kohlenberger is co-chair of Trusted Future and an innovation policy leader who has served as a policy advisor to two U.S. Presidents. The Washington Post reported in February that the U.K.

The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, ...