You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...

Virtual private networks use slick marketing terms to charm potential users, but you can easily get tangled up when trying to pick it all apart. The language describing encryption methods is thick ...

Encryption is the process of converting readable data, known as plaintext, into a jumbled string of data called ciphertext. Encryption algorithms use mathematical operations to scrabble data, making ...

A number of you have e-mailed in to report that the Advanced Encryption Standard (aka, AES) encryption appears to be compromised (andy fat bastard was first, so he wins). The issue is whether or not a ...