The US Department of Commerce's technical standards organization NIST has nominated the Ascon group of cryptographic algorithms for protecting small devices and information transmitted to and from IoT ...

Shortly after the announcement of iOS 8 in 2014, Google made headlines by saying that it would make full-device encryption mandatory for new Android devices running version 5.0. It then made more ...

Google's Adiantum Encryption Is Designed for Low-End Devices All devices benefit from having the data stored on them encrypted, but they don't all have the necessary hardware to run AES encryption. So ...

Amazon has decided to bring encryption back to its Fire devices after customers and privacy advocates complained about the latest Fire operating system (OS) update, which removed the ability to ...

Google’s Adiantum boosts encryption for low-end devices with processors that do not have hardware support for AES. Google introduced a new storage encryption solution that it hopes will expand ...

Update: Amazon will release a software update this spring that will restore encryption support to Fire OS 5. Original story: In the wake of Apple’s high-profile fight with the FBI, more users and ...

Encryption is the process of converting readable data, known as plaintext, into a jumbled string of data called ciphertext. Encryption algorithms use mathematical operations to scrabble data, making ...

A growing number of tech news outlets and security experts are criticizing Amazon’s decision to stop encrypting locally stored data on the company’s Fire devices. Data stored on Amazon Fire HD, Amazon ...

Specifically, the two tech giants want to build secure payments encryption into the hardware layer of chipsets in connected devices. That would mean all future Intel-powered devices will encrypt ...

More than a year after first rolling out end-to-end encryption for a subset of its security cameras and video doorbells, Ring announced Wednesday that it’s adding more devices to the list–namely, its ...

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