The 50-page paper concludes that while today’s blockchains remain secure, a future “fault-tolerant quantum computer” capable ...

In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology did something it had been working toward for eight years: ...

Giancarlo Lelli performed the largest known quantum attack on Bitcoin’s encryption model. His feat is a 512-fold jump from ...

But RSA worked until the advent of quantum computers. These machines harness the physics of subatomic particles to process information in fundamentally different ways, including factoring long strings ...

A working quantum computer is probably at least a decade away. The rush to adopt encryption algorithms that can withstand the ...

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 ...

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, 512 times ...

According to the latest Google research, it could take as few as 1,200 logical qubits for a quantum computer to break ...

As quantum computers advance, they are expected to be able to break tried-and-true security schemes that currently keep most ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...

There's a lot of hype about its promise, especially because it has this ability for increased processing speed and power," ...