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

The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...