Chapter 3 of the Cryptographic Handbook delves into how modern cryptographic algorithms are implemented.

The algorithms can be categorized in many different ways, but perhaps the most fundamental is the distinction between symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

One of the first practical and wide-spread algorithms to make use of asymmetric cryptographic principles was RSA. RSA makes use of the inherent difficulty in factoring the product of two prime numbers ...

The quantum computing bogeyman This basic concept—negotiate a connection and an ephemeral PSK using asymmetric cryptography—has been serving the world extremely well for a couple of decades now.

To be able to effectively communicate information securely, it is vital that the data remains intact, albeit obfuscated, in the encrypted message. For this we need “true” cryptography as is found with ...

Cryptography algorithms contain keys, which can encrypt or decrypt data. There are two different types of cryptography used in data scrambling: symmetric, where both the sender and receiver have the ...

In particular, the threat is to a type of cryptography called asymmetric cryptography which today’s IT systems rely on massively for the security of data encryption solutions as well as digital ...

Asymmetric algorithms such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman and elliptic curve cryptography, which are fundamentally based on complex mathematical problems, offer security because they are challenging to solve.

Asymmetric cryptography lies at the heart of digital security The asymmetric algorithms (e.g. RSA and ECC) are deemed not to be resistant to cryptanalysis methods that will be achievable with the ...