Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook has touted an encryption-first future in which the company’s ...

Governments across the world have taken an increasingly adversarial stance towards encryption, demanding backdoors and other mechanisms of bypassing its protections in the name of national security.

Last week the PGPocalipse was all over the news… Except that, well, it wasn’t an apocalypse. A team of researchers published a paper(PDF) where they describe how to decrypt a PGP encrypted email via a ...

Frode Weierud is affiliated with Crypto Cellar Research a privately owned company offering consultation and research in the field of cryptology. This work has been supported by the Swedish Research ...