Before RSA, secure communication required sharing secret keys, an impossible task at global scale. This is the story of how a ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to ...

A lot has been made about a post-quantum computer future in which traditional encryption methods have suddenly been rendered ...

The Master’s students in Criminology and Security Studies, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lagos State University (LASU), have successfully hosted the second edition of their ...

Quantum computers are expected to be built at a size that is commercially useful in a mere few years, from maybe just 2028 to the mid-2030s, depending on the estimate and the exact capacity ...

The takeaway: Experts have long warned about the threat that conventional cryptography faces from quantum computers, potentially undermining the foundational security of all digital encryption. New ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble ...

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