For years, the world has been told that quantum computers would soon leave classical computers behind. The phrase “quantum supremacy” became a technological slogan— the belief that ordinary computers ...

Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates ...

The post-quantum cryptography (PQC) market size is expected to reach $1.88 billion by 2029, up from $302.5 million in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 44.2%, according to Research and ...

The crypto industry's reaction was that a quantum computing threat was still distant when Google unveiled its Willow quantum chip in December 2024. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for mining and ECDSA for ...

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 ...

Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms – RSA and ECC, which are based on solvable math – can be cracked in seconds by a quantum computer. Functional quantum computers once seemed a distant future state; ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...