Somewhere before 2030, a quantum computer powerful enough to crack the cryptography behind every major blockchain may switch ...

How quantum computers actually work, in plain language To understand why quantum machines are so dangerous to encryption, I start with how different they are from the laptops on our desks. Classical ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete ...

Advances in recent years suggest we are entering the Quantum Frontier Era. National security, science, economic ...

Quantum comes down to size and efficiency. Current computers approach problems step by step, but quantum computers could theoretically use the principles of quantum mechanics to explore many ...

Quantum computing threatens the blockchain ecosystem, from Bitcoin to Ethereum and beyond, and Algorand has a plan to be ...

Quantum computing encryption is reshaping how we think about digital security in a world built on encrypted communication. Today's systems rely on mathematical complexity, but emerging quantum ...

Quantum is fundamentally complex and can be very confusing, even to those in the field.  The vast majority of people are not ...

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 ...

It's an aggressive move that'll effectively force operators of critical French infrastructure to move away from traditional ...

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, experts say.