Can be done with a smartphone or even a Linux computer

A top boffin has discovered a way to use his smartphone or Linux computer to crack RSA-2048 encryption.

Claims it is about protecting children

Spain wants to ban encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union and has strong support among EU member states for proposals to scanning private messages for illegal content.

Just attack the math

Encryption algorithms which were supposed to see off quantum computing are turning out to be pants.

Former employees say the tech is a bit pants

Arqit says its encryption system can't be broken by quantum computers, but former employees and people outside the company question the relevance of its technology.

From the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year's Galaxy S21

Samsung apparently shipped more than 100 million of its smartphones with the encryption borked.

Expert finds that it is not difficult to break

While phone encryption is considered a hot topic by lawmakers who are worried it is being used by criminals and terrorists, Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University has been showing that it is not really as safe as all that.

Aussie top cop doesn’t mince his words

Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw has warned that the real winners from a move to end-to-end encryption are pedophiles rather than those who need increased privacy.

Trialing in July

 Zoom Video Communications Inc is planning to offer all its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and will launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said yesterday.

Under a law to protect kids from paedophiles

The US government is trying to sneak a law banning encryption under a law to protect kids from paedophiles.

 
Bought the main company

For decades the world thought it was safe behind encryption systems which were secretly owned by the CIA, according to a Washington Post report.