In February, a research team published a new architecture showing that RSA-2048, the encryption standard underpinning most of the internet’s security, could be broken with fewer than 100,000 physical ...

Quantum hardware and software are advancing rapidly – and our online encryption systems need to change to stay ahead.

Google’s new research potentially puts the entire bitcoin supply – and the very foundation of digital trust – at risk, ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

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

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

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...