SHA-256 powers Bitcoin mining, transaction verification, and address generation, processing 800 exahashes per second across ...

Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core ...

As the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) prepares to announce the winner of its competition to find the next-generation cryptographic hash algorithm, ...

Startup Fabric Cryptography Inc., which sells chips optimized to run encryption algorithms, has raised $33 million in early-stage funding to support its product development efforts. Blockchain Capital ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a new cryptography standard that's available for immediate use. The standard is designed to assure the protection of authenticated ...

Euny Hong is the former supervising editor at Investopedia.com. She is also the author of two critically-acclaimed, published books. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial ...