The real challenge facing bank and insurer CIOs and CISOs is migrating decades-old, interdependent technology stacks before ...

Almost every secure connection on the internet, from a bank’s login page to a messaging app, relies on math problems that an ...

Sean Hackett, BTQ Head of Silicon Product, discusses the critical threat quantum computing poses to current encryption standards. He explains that "Q-Day," the moment when quantum computers can break ...

Discover how AI and quantum computing differ and why their convergence could revolutionize tech in fields like medicine, ...

BOLTS Technologies is developing technology designed to help blockchains transition to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC), with ...

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity ...

Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms – RSA and ECC, which are based on solvable math – can be cracked in seconds by a quantum computer. Functional quantum computers once seemed a distant future state; ...

Once enabled, Proton Mail generates new encryption keys designed to protect future encrypted emails against attacks from quantum computers. Because the feature relies on new encryption keys, users ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...

Less than a year ago, NIST released its first set of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards. The call then went out from quantum cryptography experts for federal agencies to immediately start ...

The uncomfortable secret of digital security isn’t that quantum computers are coming, it’s that nobody can prove today’s locks will work when they do. Yoon Auh, founder and CEO of BOLTS Technologies, ...

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 ...