On Aug. 1, the Microsoft Authenticator app will no longer store or manage passwords, which could be a problem for a lot of ...

This so-called passwordless future is based on a new form of login credential known as the passkey, which itself is largely based on another technology -- public key cryptography -- that's been around ...

Why are passkeys so much safer than passwords? And how exactly does this sorcery work? We go behind the scenes of this ...

A huge cryptographic breakthrough in the late 1970s, the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) method is the example of public key cryptography. See RSA and cryptography. Two Purposes - Encrypt and Authenticate ...

The development of quantum computing is fundamentally reshaping the rules of cybersecurity. Traditional public key encryption mechanisms such as RSA and ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) rely on the ...

Even though public key cryptography eliminated the need to distribute secret keys, public keys have to be distributed to others with whom they want to communicate, and if the encryption is also ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology ...