The Journey Toward Modern Cryptography
Cyber Defense Magazine, Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
Cryptography has been the backbone of security in our digital world, and it continues to grow in importance as more services, capabilities, and our lives become ever more digital.
Cryptography increases in importance daily as we see new reports about cyber-attacks. Hospitals, retail stores, businesses of all sizes, governments - all are under constant threat of attack to exfiltrate data, disrupt critical systems, or other nefarious purposes.
Today's cryptography is very strong against the capabilities of current computers. Indeed, data breaches, for example, are not successful because they break cryptography. Rather, successful attackers mostly obtain digital identities and masquerade as authorized entities to gain access to data and systems. Consequently, we operate on the well-founded belief that the cryptography used to protect our digital lives is, in fact, very secure.