Shor’s algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions ...
Beyond advanced mathematics or theoretical computing breakthroughs, PQC is about protecting the systems enterprises already ...
In December 2024, Google announced that its Willow quantum chip completed a computation in minutes that would take the world's best classical supercomputers longer than the age of the universe to ...
“323 is the product of which two prime numbers? You have five minutes.” When I said this and handed out the papers, the classroom buzzed. Is it divisible by 2? By ...
Your Email is Encrypted Today, but Will It Hold Up Tomorrow? Awakening one day to discover that every “secure email” you’ve ever written was not secure at all. Your client contracts, financial ...
Dr Jannie Zaaiman, CEO of the South Africa Information and Communication Technology Association. From Alan Turing’s breakthrough in computing mathematics, we Tardis to the 1970s when the next great ...
Cryptography is a must-know skill in 2026, powering everything from online payments to data privacy. The right books can simplify complex concepts and help you build strong, practical knowledge about ...
Quantum threats to security are already real. Adversaries are already harvesting data that will be decrypted later by quantum computers. Quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC may arrive as ...
Why cryptography matters for security and CTFs The two main classes of cryptography and their uses RSA, and some of the uses of RSA 2 methods of Key Exchange Notes about the future of encryption with ...
Some books are mathematically rigorous (e.g. Foundations of Cryptography, Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness), others more applied (e.g. Applied Cryptography, Serious ...