Digital secrets are protected by encryption, which converts meaningful data into an unintelligible form. If quantum computers ...

Every encrypted text you send today could be stored by an adversary and cracked open years from now by a quantum computer ...

Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard has spent decades warning about the threat posed by powerful quantum encryption.

Companies are aware of the risks posed by quantum computers and are making an inventory of all the areas where they use ...

Celebrity gossip might break the Internet, but not in the way that quantum computers could. “The advent of quantum computers ...

Quantum computers powerful enough to break widely used public-key encryption aren’t here yet, but migration won’t be as simple as swapping in a new tool.

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

Quantum computing could lead to revolutions in cryptography, materials design and telecommunications. But fulfilling those promises could be many years away ...

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

A 23-year-old student used "Software Defined Radio" and handheld radios to stop four high-speed trains with an alarm signal. He now faces a long prison sentence.

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world's ...