In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

Somewhere before 2030, a quantum computer powerful enough to crack the cryptography behind every major blockchain may switch ...

Quantum computing threatens the blockchain ecosystem, from Bitcoin to Ethereum and beyond, and Algorand has a plan to be ...

For years, the threat of quantum computing lived comfortably in the category of “interesting but distant,” but that comfort ...

Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete ...

Guidance from agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) has identified post-quantum cryptography as a priority, ...

A fully-fledged quantum computer that can be used to solve real-world problems. For many computer scientists, the arrival of such a device would be their version of the Moon landings: the final ...

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 ...

Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum ...

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 ...

French authorities said that government cybersecurity researchers will stop certifying security products that lack ...