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

Quantum computers will likely be able to crack current encryption algorithms earlier than once thought, posing a serious ...

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

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

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

Today, threat actors are quietly collecting data, waiting for the day when that information can be cracked with future ...

Network encryption was designed for a world in which adversaries needed to break cryptography in real time to extract value.

Quantum computer could break Bitcoin cryptography with under 500,000 qubits in nine minutes. This will likely only be ...

Google reveals quantum threat to Bitcoin with new circuit designs using fewer resources, impacting 6.9 million BTC at risk.

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

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