Quantum Computers won’t be available for another decade. Why worry about them now, then? A cryptography expert explains.

Koehler and his colleagues have maintained pyca/cryptography for 12 years since 2014, and have relied on OpenSSL for its core cryptographic algorithms throughout that time. However, they are ...

Several Bitcoin wallet applications have been upgraded following a serious cryptography problem in Android that could allow attackers to steal the virtual currency. Four Android Bitcoin clients — ...

Digital certificate provider DigiCert Inc. has built its business around a basic question: Who and what can be trusted? This simple query has become more complicated in recent years with the ...

Chinese researchers have successfully used D-Wave‘s quantum annealing systems to break classic encryption RSA, potentially accelerating the timeline for when quantum computers could pose a real threat ...

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

Quantum-software firm BlueQubit has launched its Quantum Advantage Challenge, offering a 0.25 BTC wallet prize to the winner. The overall goal of the competition is to prove that a ‘Quantum Advantage’ ...

Card-based cryptographic protocols employ physical playing cards to facilitate secure multiparty computations without the need for electronic devices. These protocols allow participants to perform ...