The GNU C compiler is excellent with reasoning about Boolean values. It may be too clever. Like Microsoft Clippy-level clever ...

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Pakistan is taking a big leap toward a fully digital economy — and at the center of this transformation stands Raast, the instant payment system launched by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). What ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Abstract: This paper discusses how to implement Paillier homomorphic encryption (HE) scheme in Java as an API. We first analyze existing Pailler HE libraries and discuss their limitations. We then ...

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Signal, the most secure widely available messaging app, has become a go-to resource for journalists, leakers and other people concerned about privacy. But it’s not infallible. And its shortcomings and ...

After the United Kingdom demanded that Apple create a backdoor that would allow government officials globally to spy on encrypted data, Apple decided to simply turn off encryption services in the UK ...

An “October surprise” occurred in 2024, but it had nothing to do with the presidential election. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI revealed that a group of Chinese cyber ...

Finnish telecom company Nokia filed for a patent on a “device, method and computer program” that can encrypt digital assets. On Dec. 23, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) ...

Nokia has filed a patent for a device and program to encrypt digital assets, marking its entry into the digital asset security space. Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications giant, has taken a ...