Science news articles about 'encrypted communications'

  • Cambridge team makes quantum cryptography practical

    ... .Unlike traditional cryptography (where the data itself is encrypted using complicated mathematical functions) in quantum encrypted communications a key is sent by beaming a string of photons ...
  • Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys

    ... towards practical implementation of secure, quantum-encrypted communication networks. A journal paper, 'The SECOQC ... themselves are used to distribute cryptographic key to access encrypted information, such as a highly sensitive transaction file ...
  • Random, but not by chance

    ... a new kind of random number generator, for encrypted communications and other uses, that is cryptographically secure, inherently private ... of urgent and persistent concern to cryptographers who need to encrypt valuable data and messages by using a long string ...
  • RIM offers India compromise

    BlackBerry maker Research In Motion offered to work with the Indian government to come up with a ways to address its concerns about tracking encrypted communication among insurgents and criminals.
  • Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown

    ... its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications - not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion - to install servers in the country to make it easier ...

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