Encryption

The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project

February 4, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been working…

28 Feb 24

Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Last week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers introduced several technologies to fight even the sneakiest hack attacks. Engineers invented a way to detect a hacker placing a probe on the circuit board to attempt to read digital traffic in a computer. Other researchers invented new ways to…

19 Jan 24

Messenger’s Global Encryption Rollout Calls Privacy Bet

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last month, Meta began rolling out default end-to-end encryption to Messenger, its one-billion-plus-member messaging platform spun off from Facebook. The long-standing app has incorporated end-to-end encryption as an option since 2016, but over the course of 2024, all of Messenger’s billion-plus users will see the option enabled by default for…

22 Dec 23

Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Trust no one. It’s not just a throwaway line from TV thrillers. It’s becoming the goal of computer security, and a technology that can make it a reality has arrived. Called fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, it allows software to compute on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. The possibilities…

02 Nov 23

The Future of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.In our digital age, where information flows seamlessly through the vast network of the internet, the importance of encrypted data cannot be overstated. As we share, communicate, and store an increasing amount of sensitive information online, the need…

24 May 23

Could These Bills Endanger Encrypted Messaging?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Billions of people around the world use a messaging app equipped with end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. In theory, end-to-end encryption means that only the sender and receiver hold the keys they need to decrypt their message. Not even an app’s owners can peek in.In the eyes…

The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project

Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

Messenger’s Global Encryption Rollout Calls Privacy Bet

Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

The Future of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Could These Bills Endanger Encrypted Messaging?

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