If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Abstract: A robust image encryption process is still one of the most challenging tasks in image security owing to massive degree and sensitivity nature of information in the form of pixels. The ...

Two ports. That's it. Just two. 22/tcp OpenSSH (pubkey only — rude, I didn't even ask yet) 3000/tcp HTTPS (Ruby on Rails, some app called "envizon") Port 22: "you shall not pass" energy. Port 3000: a ...

Abstract: To support secure data mining and privacy-preserving computation, partial access and selective computation on encrypted data are desirable. Functional encryption (FE) is a new paradigm of ...