A new report from Coinbase’s Independent Advisory Board on Quantum Computing and Blockchain has found that most major crypto ...

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 ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools designed to withstand the attack of a future quantum computer, which could potentially crack ...

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...

Keeping secrets is hard. Kids know it. Celebrities know it. National security experts know it, too. And it’s about to get even harder. There’s always someone who wants to get at the juicy details we’d ...

Back in August, the NSA released an updated advisory(Opens in a new window) that was at once interesting and expected: It said that the world had to prepare for the ...

Jeffery DelViscio: Quantum and cryptography: those are two words that might strike fear in the minds of the uninitiated. But in February’s issue of Scientific American, we have a story about how ...

A quantum computer was able to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve cryptographic key, according to the quantum computing security ...

Peter Shor published one of the earliest algorithms for quantum computers in 1994. Running Shor's algorithm on a hypothetical quantum computer, one could rapidly factor enormous numbers—a seemingly ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Math PhD student Daniel Cabarcas studies polynomials to help fight the algebraic attacks that threaten computer security. Data security. It’s a chief concern in a society that ...

In 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to protect information shared online. That ...