Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new ...

Two papers published this week have reignited debates about the risk posed by “Q-day” to the cryptography that underpins ...

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 ...

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

Quantum computers rely on qubits, which are highly sensitive and prone to errors. Existing methods often require about 1,000 ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

Google’s new research potentially puts the entire bitcoin supply – and the very foundation of digital trust – at risk, ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...

Google's finding that breaking bitcoin's cryptography requires 20x fewer qubits than previously estimated has triggered the ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Quantum software startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. said today it has partnered with Comcast Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to showcase how quantum computers can dramatically enhance network ...