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 ...

With new NSF award, computer science associate professor Prabhanjan Ananth will study the foundations of quantum computing as a cryptographic tool Whether you use a smartphone or a computer, pay for ...

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

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 ...

The rise of quantum computing poses both promise and peril for modern cryptography—and blockchains lie right at the crossroads. As machines become capable of shattering our current cryptographic ...

All cryptography uses hash functions. if it exists [a way to break hashing] we are doomed as human beings. That’s over for cryptography.The NIST-approved post-quantum signatures are at least ten times ...

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to deliver high‑throughput processing of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

For the last two days my inbox (and LinkedIn messages) has been flooded with questions about headlines claiming that “Chinese researchers broke RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening ...

Over the past year, vendor after vendor has reached the critical quantum-computing milestone where adding more qubits no longer adds a disproportionately higher amount of errors. “For the first time, ...