The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close to being ready ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology did something it had been working toward for eight years: ...

However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

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

Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use an implementation of ECC called secp256k1. According to Google, its ...

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 ...