Locking down individual files is great, but a blanket encryption will prevent anyone from getting their paws on your files.

Wave, the testnet has drawn 13,000 sign-ups and early work from six research teams, but remains an experimental environment ...

Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new ...

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

Google Quantum AI researchers have issued a warning that quantum computers could potentially undermine the encryption ...

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

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more ...

What all this means for bitcoin is fascinating. The Google researchers went into great depth (the paper is 57 pages) to show ...

But cryptocurrencies aren't the only application at risk.

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

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

The research shows quantum computers may break bitcoin and ether wallet encryption with far fewer qubits than previously ...