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 ...

Two analyses suggest that quantum computers could crack ubiquitous security keys and cryptocurrencies before the decade is ...

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 ...

Research suggests fault-tolerant quantum machines could arrive sooner than expected, posing a threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography.

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

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

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

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 ...