Google just issued a warning that has great implications for the cybersecurity world: "Q-Day" — the moment when a quantum computer becomes powerful enough ...

However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

Quantum computing’s threat to encryption is - conceptually at least – very simple. One day, perhaps quite soon, a quantum computer may be able to ...

Recent research papers posted to arXiv have sharply reduced the estimated computing power a quantum machine would need to ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

The encryption protecting global banking, government communications, and digital identity does not fail when a quantum ...

According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as ...

Google Quantum just cut the qubit requirement to break Bitcoin encryption by 20x, and 6.7 million crypto addresses are in risk.

But cryptocurrencies aren't the only application at risk.

In our latest Computing research we look at developments in quantum computing and cryptography, whether UK IT leaders believe ...

How BIP-360 reshapes Bitcoin’s quantum defense strategy, what it improves and why it stops short of full post-quantum security. BIP-360 formally puts quantum resistance on Bitcoin’s road map for the ...