Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...

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

Today, April 24, Giancarlo Lelli, an Italian researcher, was awarded a one-Bitcoin prize after the world’s largest ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of ...

A working quantum computer is probably at least a decade away. The rush to adopt encryption algorithms that can withstand the ...

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, 512 times ...

Google made a big shakeup to the cryptography world by announcing a public collision in the SHA-1 algorithm. The Wall Street ...

BTQ strengthens its quantum software leadership with the appointment of Dr. Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan as Head of Quantum Algorithm and Applications Research, formalizing a long-standing collaboration ...

Guillaume Girard of UTXO Management argues that while a quantum computer capable of breaking Bitcoin may never arrive, the ...