Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

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A glitch with an obscure Amazon AMZN0.26%increase; green up pointing triangle database disrupted life for millions of people across the U.S. as core internet services failed to function for an array ...

The Nobel-prize season always kicks off with the award for physiology or medicine, which highlights work in fields such as genetics, cell biology and evolution. This year’s award went to three ...

Signal announced the introduction of Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet (SPQR), a new cryptographic component designed to withstand quantum computing threats. SPQR will serve as an advanced mechanism that ...

Most companies are still busy running risk assessments and tweaking compliance checklists, while attackers are already thinking years ahead. Cloudflare just added post-quantum cryptography to WARP, ...

Quantum Computing is still in its infancy, more of an idea and research project than a functioning industry. The technology has incredible potential, from breaking encryption to drug discovery, but ...

ABSTRACT: We show that any semiprime number can be factorized as the product of two prime numbers in the form of a kernel factor pair of two out of 48 root numbers. Specifically, each natural number ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Bitcoin may look untouchable, but quantum hardware has already shown the beginning of its end. The question is no longer if but when. On Sep. 2, Steve Tippeconnic, a researcher using IBM’s 133-qubit ...

IBM’s 133-qubit quantum computer cracked a toy 6-bit ECC key, showcasing progress but posing no threat to Bitcoin or Ethereum yet. Bitcoin and Ethereum rely on ECC-256, far beyond current capabilities ...