The arena of creating secure environments in the hardware and software industries is somewhat shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Certainly, some types of ciphers are relatively straightforward ...

Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the third installment of the blog series taking ...

An encryption method that applies a cryptographic key and algorithm to each binary digit of plain text in order to produce cipher (encrypted) text. This method has become less prevalent in the wake of ...

Learn to use the cipher utility with confidence. This Daily Drill Down walks you through using every cipher switch and shows you exactly what happens in the real world when you use these switches.