This responds to “Turnpike strives for transparency,” an opinion piece by Mark Compton published April 27 in the Observer-Reporter. Mr. Compton’s piece is a classic example of Pennsylvania Turnpike ...

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Cryptographic obfuscation and functional encryption have emerged as pivotal tools in contemporary cryptography, offering novel ways to secure software and data while preserving functionality. At its ...

The usual criticism of the new media in our culture is that the media is making us less able to write well (not true), less inclined to read texts longer than a paragraph (not true), less social (an ...

ESET researchers recently described Wslink, a unique and previously undocumented malicious loader that runs as a server and that features a virtual-machine-based obfuscator. There are no code, ...

In his latest letter to Illumina shareholders, Carl Icahn has said that questions posed to the board are met with "silence and obfuscation" and he provided examples. "We believe the directors take ...

VPNs continue to be used extensively as tools to protect data security and user privacy. Yet, as to be expected, there are many providers available, and many options within those providers – so buyer ...

COMMENTARY--I can imagine a world where the computers needed no security. Where there were no passwords, no security checks, and no firewalls. Where the computers communicated freely and shared ...

As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing ...