Ofer A. Lidsky is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and is the founder and CEO of Excellent Brain. In today’s digital age, data encryption is vital for protecting sensitive information.

In the digital age, protecting data has become paramount. Even everyday people have a critical need for protecting their information, and one way that's done is end-to-end encryption, often ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Encryption is a tricky business. You'll run into terms like TLS, zero-knowledge, and end-to-end encryption, which have discrete ...

The recent bombshell lawsuit filed in San Francisco has sent ripples through the tech world, fueled by whistleblower claims that Meta’s "end-to-end encryption" might have a secret backdoor. While Meta ...

Block ciphers are invertible symmetric key cryptographic algorithms. Here, symmetric means that the same cryptographic key is used to both encrypt and decrypt messages. The key is used to transform ...

There is now a one-word answer to whether a Messages thread is private. Apple’s iPhone guide for iOS 27 says that “when a conversation is end-to-end encrypted, you see Encrypted at the top of the ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Google is pressing forward with the evolution of RCS by quietly rolling out tests for Messaging Layer Security (MLS), the protocol ...

Cipher block chaining (CBC) is a mode of operation for a block cipher-- one in which a sequence of bits are encrypted as a single unit, or block, with a cipher key applied to the entire block. Cipher ...

One of the many benefits of using iMessage is that you know your conversations are always end-to-end encrypted. That level of security has never previously extended to green bubble conversations. But ...