Wired

Computer Scientists Achieve the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

Fortinet, Cloudflare likely to be among beneficiaries of post-quantum cryptography: BTIG

Fortinet (FTNT) and Cloudflare (NET) could benefit from post-quantum cryptography spending as Q-Day nears; explore BTIG’s ...
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New Cryptography Must Be Developed and Deployed Now, Even Though A Quantum Computer That Could Compromise Today's Cryptography Is Likely At Least A Decade Away, Says New Report

Report Details Risks and Benefits of Developing a Practical Quantum Computer, Identifies Metrics for Tracking Progress WASHINGTON – Given the current state of quantum computing and the significant ...

Quantum computers are coming to break our codes faster than anyone expected

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...
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The Quantum Encryption Apocalypse Is Closer Than You Think, Scientists Say

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The forthcoming era of quantum computers holds a lot of promise. Qubits—the quantum version of classical bits—have the potential to solve immensely ...
Computer Weekly

Deep dive into quantum-resistant cryptography for email security

Imagine waking up one day to find that all your confidential emails are suddenly an open book for anyone with a powerful enough computer. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, with the rapid ...
CNN

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...
Computer Weekly

NIST debuts three quantum-safe encryption algorithms

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has debuted three encryption algorithms that it claims will help safeguard critical data from cyber attacks originating from quantum ...
The Verge

The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography

New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time In 2016, ...
The New Yorker

Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing

Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles’s leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might get the impression that hackers can ...
Defense One

Pentagon seeks better computer encryption

The Pentagon is exploring technologies designed to decrease hardware requirements and improve computer encryption to better secure networks without compromising speed and performance. Virginia-based ...