Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Google made a big shakeup to the cryptography world by announcing a public collision in the SHA-1 algorithm. The Wall Street ...

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to ...

However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

Bitcoin transactions could be resistant to quantum attacks without changing the network’s core rules, a new proposal contends ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies.

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough machine may be built much sooner than previously thought ...

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) released its Trusted Platform Module 2.0 v185 specification, which integrates post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms to help device owners protect sensitive data ...

I’m just the blogger who works nights and weekends for Gizmodo. If I could get into the nitty-gritty of cryptography and quantum computing, I would be off doing that. With that said, this concerns a ...