A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is.

It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

A recent report finds that quantum computing poses a genuine threat to Bitcoin, while efforts to safeguard the network are ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

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

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum information science. Their 1984 paper ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...

I Tried Internxt, an Encrypted, Secure Cloud Storage Built for the Post-Quantum Era ...

Developers are already working to address quantum risks, and investors shouldn’t mistake a long-term challenge for an ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...

Researchers say quantum breakthroughs could eventually expose millions in Bitcoin unless the network adopts post-quantum ...