New quantum estimates reveal Bitcoin encryption may be more vulnerable soon ...

For much of the past decade, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) lived primarily in academic journals and standards committees.

A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

Recent research papers posted to arXiv have sharply reduced the estimated computing power a quantum machine would need to ...

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Quantum computers will likely be able to crack current encryption algorithms earlier than once thought, posing a serious ...

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

An encryption algorithm that was supposed to stand up to attacks from the future's most powerful computers was recently laid low by a much simpler machine. Reading time 2 minutes It turns out that ...

Whenever we talk about end-to-end encrypted data, we're usually talking about messaging apps like iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, and Google's RCS. But plenty of other data is encrypted to ensure ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...