When crypto investors discuss quantum computing, they invariably worry about its potential to undermine encryption. Quantum computers alone do not pose such a mortal threat, however. It’s their ...

Quantum computing will change the global digital security landscape out of all recognition and provide opportunity for ...

Quantum computing could break Bitcoin by 2030. Learn what it means for your BTC and how post-quantum cryptography may protect it.

Major layer-1 blockchains are adding post-quantum security to their roadmaps as NIST standards roll out and cryptographic ...

Q-day refers to the day a cryptographically relevant quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break public-key encryption.

Peter Shor published one of the earliest algorithms for quantum computers in 1994. Running Shor's algorithm on a hypothetical quantum computer, one could rapidly factor enormous numbers—a seemingly ...

Approval of three quantum-proof algorithms caps eight-year global effort to make the Internet safe from attacks using future computers. Cybersecurity is set for a comprehensive overhaul. The US ...

QUANTUM computing — a fast-advancing field that uses quantum-mechanical properties to perform calculations far beyond the capabilities of classical machines — is accelerating global concern over the ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and ...