A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Quantum computers may slam into hard architectural walls long before they can crack the encryption protecting online banking, ...

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 ...

Quantum computing isn’t new, yet there is a fear that the computing power it can offer at a commercial level could be used by threat actors to break the private keys that a lot of digital interactions ...

The Bitcoin network took its first step towards quantum-computing resistance with the addition of BIP 360 to its repository.

Once quantum computers mature, they could crack Bitcoin’s ECDSA signatures, threatening over $1 trillion in value. Both require disruptive solutions, hard forks or complex hybrid signatures, to become ...

For the last two days my inbox (and LinkedIn messages) has been flooded with questions about headlines claiming that “Chinese researchers broke RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening ...

Depending on who you ask, the big news this week is that quantum computing researchers out of China have broken RSA. (Here’s the PDF of their paper.) And that’s true… sort of. There are multiple ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.