Technology development seems to gallop a little faster each year. But there’s always one laggard: encryption. Why the deliberate pace? Because a single, small mistake can cut off communications or shut down businesses.
Yet there are times when you take stock—only to discover the encryption landscape seems to have transformed overnight. Now is that time. Although the changes have been incremental over several years, the net effect is dramatic.
Some of those changes began shortly after Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the U.S. government’s extensive surveillance apparatus. Others are the natural result of cryptographic ideas reaching the marketplace, says Brent Waters, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2015 Grace Murray Hopper Award.
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Encryption in 2016: Small victories add up
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