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

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

Imagine a world where the locks protecting your most sensitive information—your financial records, medical history, or even national security secrets—can be effortlessly picked. This is the looming ...

Someday, somebody, somewhere will likely have a quantum computer capable of cracking the fragile codes that underpin every piece of data we exchange over the internet. We don’t know when. It could be ...

Two scientists just won computing's Nobel Prize for an idea from 1984: use quantum mechanics to make eavesdropping physically ...

Lost in the debate over if, or when, a quantum computer will decipher encryption models is the need for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to become part of organizations' tech stacks and zero-trust ...

Nation-states and malicious actors are collecting encrypted data so they can read it with future quantum computers. These ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

Today, threat actors are quietly collecting data, waiting for the day when that information can be cracked with future technology.