Encryption forms the backbone of digital security but now faces a fundamental challenge: the emergence of quantum computers.

To be “quantum safe,” a blockchain must adopt cryptographic primitives—signatures, hashing, key encapsulation—that could ...

The threat landscape is being shaped by two seismic forces. To future-proof their organizations, security leaders must take a ...

The slow transition to ECC encryption may force many practices back to paper. Health insurance physicians warn Federal ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. The ECM’s elliptic curves are complex and challenging to visualize. However, they carry out essential calculations ...

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 ...

IBM’s 133-qubit quantum computer cracked a toy 6-bit ECC key, showcasing progress but posing no threat to Bitcoin or Ethereum yet. Bitcoin and Ethereum rely on ECC-256, far beyond current capabilities ...

1 Department of Information Engineering, Ningxia Communications Technical College, Yinchuan, China 2 School of Computer, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China As an important component of the ...

As NIST rolls out advanced PQC standards to address the ‘Harvest now, decrypt later’ threat, a new report suggests that a smarter and simpler approach involves switching… ...

A cybersecurity expert has warned that Bitcoin’s (BTC) underlying security could be compromised in the coming years by quantum computers, amid ongoing advancements in the sector. According to David ...