Nature

Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem

The elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) lies at the heart of modern public-key cryptography. It concerns the challenge of determining an unknown scalar multiplier given two points on an ...
CoinDesk

How a quantum computer can be used to actually steal your bitcoin in '9 minutes'

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...
Ars Technica

New crypto-cracking record reached, with less help than usual from Moore’s Law

Researchers have reached a new milestone in the annals of cryptography with the factoring of the largest RSA key size ever computed and a matching computation of the largest-ever integer discrete ...

Google warns quantum computers could break Bitcoin encryption much sooner than expected

New quantum estimates reveal Bitcoin encryption may be more vulnerable soon ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Draft Standards For Quantum Safe Cryptography Are Here

FIPS 203 for ML-KEM (also known as CRYSTALS-Kyber) FIPS 204 for ML-DSA (also known as CRYSTALS-Dilithium) FIPS 205 for SLH-DSA (also known as Sphincs+) The publication of these draft standards is an ...