The most familiar names in network security are neither vendors nor geeks: Try Alice and Bob. Since Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adleman – the R, S and A in RSA Security – introduced Alice and Bob ...

The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works. Whitfield Diffie and Martin ...

There was a shocking turn of events in crypto-world. Alice and Bob, the beloved (or not-so-beloved, depending) placeholder characters often used in cryptography examples, have been spotted in the ...

Public and private keys are the fundamental building blocks of secure transactions in the world of cryptocurrencies. These cryptographic instruments existed long before digital currencies were ...