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

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

The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

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

Google reveals quantum computers could crack crypto encryption in minutes, threatening Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets and ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are practically impossible to solve. Quantum computers threaten to flip that ...

Google's quantum paper made headlines with that number. Here's what it means, what's actually at risk, and why 6.9 million ...

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

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them ...

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

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