Wired

Computer Scientists Achieve the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

Quantum computers are coming to break our codes faster than anyone expected

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...
Computer Weekly

NIST debuts three quantum-safe encryption algorithms

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has debuted three encryption algorithms that it claims will help safeguard critical data from cyber attacks originating from quantum ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

New Cryptography Must Be Developed and Deployed Now, Even Though A Quantum Computer That Could Compromise Today's Cryptography Is Likely At Least A Decade Away, Says New Report

Report Details Risks and Benefits of Developing a Practical Quantum Computer, Identifies Metrics for Tracking Progress WASHINGTON – Given the current state of quantum computing and the significant ...

Quantum computer breaks 15-bit elliptic curve cryptographic key

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...
Computer Weekly

Post-quantum cryptography a major challenge, says expert

Post-quantum cryptography will be a major challenge for the next decade at least, according to Bart Preneel, professor of cryptography at KU Leuven University in Belgium. This is one of the main ...

How Should We Prepare for the Looming Quantum Encryption Apocalypse?

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...
CNET

These Standards Could Protect Your Data From Quantum Computer Attacks

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...
The Verge

The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography

New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time In 2016, ...
The New Yorker

Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing

Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles’s leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might get the impression that hackers can ...
CNN

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...