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

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

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

Quantum computer could break Bitcoin cryptography with under 500,000 qubits in nine minutes. This will likely only be ...

Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use an implementation of ECC called secp256k1. According to Google, its ...

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

Chinese researchers at Shanghai University say they’ve inched towards cracking military-grade encryption — with the help of a quantum computer. SPNs are used in algorithms tasked with protecting ...

According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as ...

The research shows quantum computers may break bitcoin and ether wallet encryption with far fewer qubits than previously ...

Wave, the testnet has drawn 13,000 sign-ups and early work from six research teams, but remains an experimental environment ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...