Much interest in quantum computer development was spurred by Peter Shor's 1994 discovery of an algorithm that showed how ...

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

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI ...

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

New quantum estimates reveal Bitcoin encryption may be more vulnerable soon ...

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

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

New research and industry timelines are accelerating efforts to replace cryptography that quantum computers could eventually ...

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

Research suggests fault-tolerant quantum machines could arrive sooner than expected, posing a threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography.

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

Google published a paper on March 31 that states that Bitcoin's cryptography could be impacted by quantum computing sooner ...