Some cryptographers are looking for RSA replacements because the algorithm is just one encryption algorithm that may be vulnerable to new machines that exploit quantum effects in electronics.

The New York Times' John Markoff writes that a team of American and European researchers have discovered a crack in the RSA program, one of the most commonly used encryption algorithms in the world.

Since Bleichenbacher's presentation, researchers have found RSA signature validation issues in major code bases, like the secure communication library OpenSSL in 2007 and Mozilla's Firefox in 2014.

RSA has issued a statement denying allegations stemming from Friday's bombshell report that the encryption software provider received $10 million from the National Security Agency (NSA) in ...

RSA encryption uses the product of two large primes to make a public “key”, safe in the knowledge that only those authorised to know the factors used to make it can decode the message.

Just as RSA encryption relies on the difficulty of factoring extremely large numbers, three of the four algorithms unveiled this week use a complicated mathematical problem that’s expected to be ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines don't yet exist, that estimate could still fall further ...