RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...
No one knew when the day would come when it would be possible to break through RSA encryption using a quantum computer, but on December 23, 2022, a team of Chinese researchers announced on the open ...
Digital security depends on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. A new proof shows why one method for breaking digital encryption won’t work. My recent story for Quanta explained a newly proved ...