The clock is ticking on cryptocurrency.

Research suggests fault-tolerant quantum machines could arrive sooner than expected, posing a threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography.

Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use an implementation of ECC called secp256k1. According to Google, its ...

Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...

Quantum computers will likely be able to crack current encryption algorithms earlier than once thought, posing a serious ...

NIST consortium is promoting awareness and developing practices to ease migration from current public-key algorithms to ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the 2026 Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography. I am incredibly pleased to see them get this recognition. I have always thought the technology to ...

The latest specification integrates NIST-standardized ML-KEM and ML-DSA to help device owners safeguard sensitive data ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

(Corrects spelling of cryptography in headline) By Laurie Chen BEIJING, March 19 (Reuters) - China will likely develop ...

Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics. In our increasingly digital lives, ...