Cryptography is just about as old as written communication itself, and mathematics has long supplied methods for the cryptographic toolbox. Starting in the 1970s, increasingly sophisticated ...

It all begins with mathematics really - the one true scientific language, so they say. Cryptography has been around as early as 4000 years ago, doing what it still does today - ensuring that secrets ...

The National Security Agency is the largest employer of mathematicians in the US. Maths is a core discipline at the NSA, and mathematicians work on signals intelligence and information security. Why ...

A graduate student recently harnessed the complexity of mathematical proofs to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.

A simple geometric idea has been used to power advances in information theory, cryptography and even blockchain technology. But while the work has generated a lot of excitement among pure ...

"Large bureaucracies, with the power that the computer gives them, become more powerful," said New York Times reporter David Burnham in a 1983 C-Span interview about his book The Rise of the Computer ...

Newly written code, called the Generalized Knapsack Code, could thwart hackers armed with next generation quantum computers. The encryption codes that safeguard internet data today won't be secure ...

Mathematicians are often stereotyped as strictly logical, almost robotic, allowing no time for emotions to affect their work. For Daniel Larsen, this has never been true — in fact, it’s been the ...

Neal Koblitz is a mathematician who, starting in the 1980s, became fascinated by mathematical questions in cryptography. In his article "The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography," ...