By the time Bitcoin and other networks are ready to defend themselves, it may already be too late, according to a new ...

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 ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

All cryptography uses hash functions. if it exists [a way to break hashing] we are doomed as human beings. That’s over for cryptography.The NIST-approved post-quantum signatures are at least ten times ...

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to deliver high‑throughput processing of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The ...

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

The FIDO2 industry standard adopted five years ago provides the most secure known way to log in to websites because it doesn’t rely on passwords and has the most secure form of built-in two-factor ...

Imagine waking up one day to find that all your confidential emails are suddenly an open book for anyone with a powerful enough computer. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, with the rapid ...

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 ...

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 ...