Wired

Computer Scientists Achieve the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...
Mashable

How to encrypt your computer (and why you should)

Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Cooper Quintin, a security researcher ...
ZME Science on MSN

Quantum computers may break today’s encryption much sooner than scientists expected

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of ...
SiliconANGLE

Four encryption tools chosen to protect against quantum computer attacks

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today said it has chosen four encryption tools designed to protect against quantum computer attacks for a planned ...
The Verge

The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography

New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time In 2016, ...
Computer Weekly

Deep dive into quantum-resistant cryptography for email security

Imagine waking up one day to find that all your confidential emails are suddenly an open book for anyone with a powerful enough computer. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, with the rapid ...
CNN

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...
Computer Weekly

Dutch influence standards for post-quantum cryptography

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools designed to withstand the attack of a future quantum computer, which could potentially crack ...
VentureBeat

Cloudflare’s post-quantum cryptography protects almost a fifth of the internet

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The countdown to Y2Q, the day when quantum ...
Fast Company

Cryptography is dying—long live cryptography

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY April H. Burghardt ...
CNET

Quantum computers could crack today's encrypted messages. That's a problem

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...