Many embedded systems depend on obscurity to achieve security. We often design systems to download unsigned or unencrypted firmware upgrades or store unencrypted user data, a practice we justify ...

Imagine a world where the most widely-used cryptographic methods turn out to be broken: quantum computers allow encrypted Internet data transactions to become readable by anyone who happened to be ...

Keeping information secure is paramount in today’s connected world. Towards this end governments and businesses worldwide view cryptography as a key protective tool to secure critical data and ...