The UK Government has revealed its plans to make Oftel the regulatory body for national cryptography services. Cryptography is the coding system used to make online transactions secure. He said that Oftel approves of the government's proactive...
Perceptions of the stock market don't reflect businesses attitudes to technology spending in the field. Fifty six per cent of the interviewees said that "the pendulum has swung too far", in that the stock markets' tendency to hammer high-tech...
By an impressive coincidence, the inventors of the RSA algorithm - one of the cornerstones of cryptography - were awarded the Turing Award for computing on Monday, the day the annual IT security conference bearing their initials opened in San...
Quantum cryptography - using a private communication channel to lock down the exchange of sensitive data between two points - has to date created much more discussion than it has practical applications.
As part of its initiatives, Sun plans to introduce Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 with support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Sun Microsystems is expected to announce two security initiatives today, one introducing a form of encryption for...
This judgment makes perfectly clear that employers who spy on their staff are infringing their privacy. Surveillance has serious health implications and the government has ignored this. Michael White, one of the report's authors and research fellow...