Coding theory and cryptography are interwoven fields that lie at the heart of secure communication and reliable data storage. The discipline of coding theory focuses on the design and analysis of ...

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don't panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global ...