For C-suite leaders, one of the most daunting operational challenges of the next decade will be the migration to post-quantum cryptography: algorithms that can defend against attacks from quantum ...

Quantum researchers are offering 1 Bitcoin to whoever cracks the biggest “toy version” of a Bitcoin key using Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer.

Cryptography secures digital data using algorithms, essential in private secure communications. Cryptos use cryptographic methods like asymmetric encryption and hash functions for transactions.

A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system. By Pranav Baskar For a group of ...

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In today's digital world, where security breaches can expose millions of records in seconds, and quantum computing is quickly moving from theory to reality, traditional cryptographic systems are under ...

Chief information security officers (CISOs) have learned to live with uncertainty—supply chain threats, zero-day exploits, and shadow IT. But one of the most dangerous blind spots is also one of the ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...