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

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 ...

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

The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

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

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 ...

Google says a quantum computer could crack Bitcoin's encryption in nine minutes using far fewer resources than previously estimated.

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

Quantum computer could break Bitcoin cryptography with under 500,000 qubits in nine minutes. This will likely only be ...

Report Details Risks and Benefits of Developing a Practical Quantum Computer, Identifies Metrics for Tracking Progress WASHINGTON – Given the current state of quantum computing and the significant ...