Google warned that quantum advances could break crypto security sooner than expected, with analysts recommending ‘appropriate urgency.’

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

When it comes to public key cryptography, most systems today are still stuck in the 1970s. On December 14, 1977, two events occurred that would change the world: Paramount Pictures released Saturday Night Fever, and MIT filed the patent for RSA. Just as ...

The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) lies at the heart of modern public-key cryptography. It concerns the challenge of determining an unknown scalar multiplier given two points on an elliptic curve over a finite field, under the operation ...

A paper from Google suggests breaking the Bitcoin blockchain's cryptography with quantum computers could require fewer than 500,000 qubits, a fraction of previous estimates. A sep