A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

Quantum computers may slam into hard architectural walls long before they can crack the encryption protecting online banking, ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Quantum computing isn’t new, yet there is a fear that the computing power it can offer at a commercial level could be used by threat actors to break the private keys that a lot of digital interactions ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and ...

Bitcoin’s BIP-360 does not pick a PQ signatureBIP-360 coauthor Ethan Heilman explains the latest version of the proposal ...

For the last two days my inbox (and LinkedIn messages) has been flooded with questions about headlines claiming that “Chinese researchers broke RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

Quantum computers are both the most promising and the most confusing segment of innovation in computing. On one hand, quantum computers promise to perform calculations that would otherwise be utterly ...