The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...

Google cut the qubits needed to break crypto encryption by 20x and withheld the circuits. Here's why that matters.

Fourteen prominent security and cryptography experts have signed an open letter to technology companies urging them to take steps to regain users’ trust following reports over the past year that ...

New quantum estimates reveal Bitcoin encryption may be more vulnerable soon ...

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

Changpeng Zhao says crypto must adopt quantum-resistant algorithms and coordinate upgrades to address future security risks.

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...