The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

At the 2026 Linux Security Summit North America, Eric Biggers spoke about some of the problems with the kernel's cryptography framework, as well as the recent progress in adding library APIs to allow ...

Enterprise cryptography faces risks beyond just the advent of quantum computers. For starters, there is no guarantee that the traditional algorithms have not been broken. Though we believe that it is ...

OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether ...

Researchers said it was the first time a quantum computer “posed a real and substantial threat” to encryption, but multiple limitations still hamper a full-scale hack. Chinese researchers using a ...

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...

It’s also important to note that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will be broken, too. As the Katten law firm’s Daniel Davis and Alexander Kim recently observed: “Quantum computers have the ...

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, ...

Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications using codes, so that only those for whom the information is intended can read and process it. In computer science, cryptography ...

For months, Crypto Twitter felt like it was talking to an empty room. On July 13, that started to change. X's head of product, Nikita Bier, announced a change to the platform's algorithm designed to ...

UK regulators warn that automated crypto trading decisions could trigger licensing requirements, even without direct human ...

For months, Crypto Twitter felt like it was talking to an empty room. On July 13, that started to change. X's head of product, Nikita Bier, announced a change to the platform's algorithm designed to ...