The bigger danger may not be a quantum attack today, but encrypted data stolen today and unlocked years later.

U.S. government agencies are failing to prepare for the transition to post-quantum encryption, creating the risk that their sensitive data will still be vulnerable to decryption by quantum computers ...

I researched quantum mechanics.Next, I researched quantum computers.And finally, I returned to my initial question.Why do ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Bitcoin developer and Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp has challenged growing concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) could ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...

For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely scrutinizing its security ...

A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...

Researchers have developed an encrypted skyline query scheme that lets patients search medical databases with their own ...