The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...

Discussing the FBI case with a friend yesterday, one distinction that seems worth addressing is the difference between a backdoor into iPhones – which is what law enforcement agencies have so far been ...

It’s been a little while since we talked about HDCP around here, but recent developments in the area of digital content protection are proving very interesting. You might remember that the Master Key ...

The British government is preparing to give its police the authority to force organizations and individuals to disclose encryption keys, a move that has outraged some security and civil-rights experts ...

Ars recently attempted to delve into the inner workings of the security built into Apple’s iCloud service. Though we came away reasonably certain that iCloud uses industry best practices that Apple ...

Apple’s headline-grabbing showdown with Uncle Sam over encryption has been brewing for about two decades. As cellphones and other gadgets have become common, companies like Apple, Google and Verizon ...

Canadian's police have obtained encryption keys used by consumer BlackBerry devices, once thought to be one of the most secure mobile devices on the market. A new report from Vice News found the ...

Would you hand your keys to just anyone, I sure wouldn’t. That isn’t stopping the United States Federal Government from asking encryption developers to hand over their keys, encryption keys that is.

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to ...