The discovery of quantum mechanics opened the door to fundamentally new ways of communicating, processing, and protecting data. With a quantum revolution well underway, long unimaginable opportunities ...

The world’s longest quantum communications link has been set up between China and South Africa, spanning a record-breaking 12,900 km (8,015 miles). The connection takes advantage of quantum physics ...

In theory, we've had this licked for hundreds of years. We've long known how to create totally unbreakable encryption, ciphers so strong that no amount of modern supercomputing power could brute force ...

Republican senatators have proposed a new bill that would end the use of unbreakable encryption by tech companies on the basis that it helps “terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Turing Award has made its way to computing. In a landmark moment, scientists Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard were ...

Pioneering tech company Terra Quantum has discovered a weakness in ‘post-quantum cryptography’, the set of cryptographic systems securing communication protocols and networks against quantum computers ...

A Swiss technology company says it has made a breakthrough by using quantum computers to uncover vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption. Terra Quantum AG said its discovery “upends the current ...

A US physicist and a Canadian computer scientist have won this year's Turing Award for their invention of a form of seemingly unbreakable encryption. Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work, ...

The quest for unbreakable encryption may have finally succeeded. A team of researchers has created a tool capable of making any program impervious to attacks. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Professor Andrew Forbes is developing ultra-fast internet using lasers and quantum encryption, potentially transforming ...