It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

Wang Chao and his colleagues at Shanghai University have announced that they have developed a method to break RSA encryption, a cryptography whose security is based on the difficulty of prime ...

A new encryption method developed at Florida International University aims to secure digital content against the threat posed by future quantum computers.

The Human Rights Foundation published a report on Oct. 31, 2025, warning that cryptographically relevant quantum computers pose a significant threat to Bitcoin security. The report states that 6.51 ...

As artificial intelligence fuels a surge in convincing deepfakes and quantum computing advances toward real-world use, researchers have developed a quantum-safe encryption system designed to protect ...

Quantum computers are expected to perform large-scale calculations that cannot be realized with conventional computers, but there is a problem that everything must be redeveloped, including hardware, ...

Amid fears of a looming encryption crisis from quantum computing, experts are proactively implementing robust defences, ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...