Google researchers found certain quantum computers could break the encryption protecting the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new ...

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

Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s ...

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

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

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

NIST finalized the first three post-quantum cryptography standards (FIPS 203, 204, 205) in August 2024, ending an eight-year ...

CZ says crypto can survive quantum computing threats. Here's what Google's quantum breakthrough means for Bitcoin and ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

Alphabet (Google) sounded a fresh alarm about the accelerating risks posed by quantum computers to the foundational security ...

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