How the plotters slipped U.S. net

LONDON, October 10, 2001 — As US forces converge on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden's satellite phone has not been cut off. But calls to the te

The encryption imperative

By Regina Joseph

Hackers up ante for even routine data protection ...

Excerpts from this story referencing "cryptography":

"… sive machines that only governments or research institutions could afford, cryptography remained beyond both the need and reach of the general population.The pers …"

"… ions in cryptography, introduced the concept of public-key, or asymmetric, cryptography.Essentially, it uses two unrelated keys, one for encryption and one for de …"

An epidemic of missing laptops

By The Center for Public Integrity

Lax security for federal law enforcement agencies' laptops resulted in hundreds missing