The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized a set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand cyberattacks from quantum computers. These ...

Before we move into the meat of this article, let’s define a couple terms related to cryptography. The syllable crypt may make you think of tombs, but it comes from a Greek word that means “hidden” or ...

RC6, a cryptographic algorithm, is specified as RC6-w/r/b, where w is word size, r is the number of rounds and b is the length of encryption key in bytes. RC6 is the successor to RC5. It is one of the ...