The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...

Wong: So, Joppe, could you tell us why we need a new standard for public-key encryption? Bos: Yeah, thanks. Publicly, encryption is one of the key components in cryptography, so I'll use symmetric key ...

We don’t know when, but it will happen: Quantum computers will become so powerful that all existing public-key cryptography protections will be quickly crackable. According to Dr. Mark Jackson of ...

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IBM adds NIST’s new public-key encryption and digital signatures algorithms to defend against attacks by future quantum computers. While the need for it may be years away, IBM has added additional ...

Just weeks after US president Joe Biden signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, there are reports that Chinese researchers have cracked RSA 2048 bit encryption. Given ...

Encryption, the transformation of data into a form that prevents anyone unauthorized from understanding that data, is a fundamental technology that enables online commerce, secure communication, and ...

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Note: The below is a sarcastic parody, in the spirit of our earlier sarcastic parodies. WASHINGTON D.C., June 23, 1984. In a unanimous decision, the Federal Circuit has ruled U.S. Patent No. 4,405,829 ...