A 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing prompted President Reagan to reveal U.S. intelligence capabilities, inadvertently exposing that America could decrypt messages from Swiss encryption machines used ...

Can one see through a scattering medium like ground glass? Conventionally, such a feat would be deemed impossible. As light travels through an opaque medium, the information contained in the light ...

Artificial intelligence isn’t just the future of enterprise computing. It’s also the future of chipmaking giant Intel Corp. as well. What will this evolving role look like for the 52-year-old ...

The U.S. Army’s portable encryption machine, the M-209, is lighter than most of the machines here, but at 7 pounds with its case, much heavier than most smartphones. Its major innovation: a groove in ...

German divers have stumbled on a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis during World War II — and believe it was tossed into the Baltic Sea from a scuttled vessel. The divers, who were ...

There have been a few moments in the past few years, when a conspiracy theory is suddenly demonstrated to be based in fact. Once upon a time, it was an absurd suggestion that the NSA had data taps in ...

Through the looking glass: Artist Stephanie Rentschler recently unveiled SlimeMoldCrypt, an interactive installation where art meets science by using biology to generate stronger encryption keys.

For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines ...

So-called encryption wars are nothing new. The debate over government and law enforcement access to encrypted material is rightly headline news today, but it's a battle that’s been fought time and ...

South American military dictatorships combined forces in the late 1970s on a continent-wide crackdown they called Operation Condor against perceived threats to their rule. It was part of a broader ...

Yesterday, Ars spoke with IBM Senior Research Scientist Flavio Bergamaschi about the company’s recent successful field trials of Fully Homomorphic Encryption. We suspect many of you will have the same ...