Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

Quantum computing won’t break Bitcoin in 2026, but attackers are already preparing. Here’s how crypto is moving toward post-quantum security, and how ready it is.

Modern cryptographic protocols are essential for securing information across its entire lifecycle. Despite major theoretical and practical advances, their widespread deployment still faces ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

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Quantum computing presents both a potential breakthrough and a cryptographic threat -- one that Microsoft is tackling through what it calls "progress towards next‑generation cryptography." In a post ...

As quantum computing moves from theoretical promise to practical potential, the threat it poses to today’s cryptographic systems is becoming increasingly relevant. While a large-scale, fault-tolerant ...

The mathematical foundation of post-quantum cryptography primarily relies on complex mathematical problems, such as the shortest vector problem (SVP) and closest vector problem (CVP) within lattice ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...