Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

Just this past month, both Google’s Quantum AI team and a Cal Tech startup named Oratomic both produced papers that stated ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Why it matters: NEAR warns that quantum computers could break blockchain cryptography sooner than expected, threatening wallet security and asset ownership verification. Proposed solution: The team ...

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...

An OECD paper last year said 'harvest now, decrypt later' attacks were one reason to move now.

After research from Google suggested a potential threat to some cryptocurrencies, tokens like QRL and Cellframe (CEL) saw ...

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warns AI could break post-quantum cryptographic schemes, urging multi-sig wallets and PDA ...