(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks that can absorb huge volumes of water. In recent years, significant progress has been made with so-called "stimuli-responsive" hydrogels ...

(Nanowerk News) To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information ...

To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information has now been ...

The day when quantum computers will be able to break conventional encryption is rapidly approaching, but not all companies ...

Cryptographic algorithms are the backbone of secure data and communication. When deployed correctly, public-key algorithms have generally helped safeguard data against attacks. However, industry ...

Overview Quantum computing is opening new avenues for defeating existing encryption technologies.One potential consequence of ...

In 2021, Booz Allen Hamilton analysts surmised that China will surpass Europe and the US in quantum-related research and development and that Chinese hackers could soon target heavily encrypted ...

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), has received significant interest over the past decade due to its performance and security level. Many hardware implementations have been proposed. In most of the ...

MEGA has released a security update to address a set of severe vulnerabilities that could have exposed user data, even if the data had been stored in encrypted form. MEGA is a New Zealand-based cloud ...

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...