An encryption algorithm that was supposed to stand up to attacks from the future's most powerful computers was recently laid low by a much simpler machine. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes It ...

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IBM scientists entangled 120 qubits in a single coherent “cat state,” a record-breaking feat in quantum computing.

The National Security Agency claims that the encryption standards it's developing will be so tough that even its own hackers won't be able to crack them. Okay! Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. has been ...

As computers and math techniques become more powerful and sophisticated, current encryption standards could be made obsolete in as little as five years The strength of the encryption used now to ...

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, ...