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

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

The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

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

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them ...

Google published a paper on March 31 that states that Bitcoin's cryptography could be impacted by quantum computing sooner ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

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

Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin in 9 minutes according to Google research. Discover how developers plan to protect 6.5 ...

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

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

After research from Google suggested a potential threat to some cryptocurrencies, tokens like QRL and Cellframe (CEL) saw their values rise. Bitcoin has been the king of cryptocurrencies since its ...