The correct framing is not that Lightning is broken and unfixable. It is that Lightning, like all of Bitcoin, and like most ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...

Quantum Machines, founded in 2018 by three Weizmann-trained physicists and headquartered in Tel Aviv, now supplies the control technology used by more than half the companies in the world that are ...

Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking development that has sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity community, researchers at IBM have demonstrated a quantum algorithm capable of factoring a 2048-bit ...

“Quantum safe” cryptography techniques are still under development ...

In February, a research team published a new architecture showing that RSA-2048, the encryption standard underpinning most of the internet’s security, could be broken with fewer than 100,000 physical ...

Quantum computing future explained through cryptography, optimization, and AI breakthroughs showing how quantum computing ...

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to ...

But RSA worked until the advent of quantum computers. These machines harness the physics of subatomic particles to process information in fundamentally different ways, including factoring long strings ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...