A team at Google Quantum AI, led by researcher Craig Gidney, has shown that breaking RSA-2048 encryption could require roughly 20 times fewer physical qubits than previously estimated, collapsing the ...

The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked ...

Securing our information and our technologies has become critical in this shifting and uncertain geopolitical context.

Alan Turing, a pivotal World War II codebreaker, developed the theoretical basis for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Despite his immense contributions, he was prosecuted for his ...

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Abstract: Matchmaking encryption, which is a cryptographic primitive that enables two-sided access control for both senders and receivers, has attracted significant attention from cryptography ...

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 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a new cryptography standard that's available for immediate use. The standard is designed to assure the protection of authenticated ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

Quantum computing capabilities are accelerating, pushing traditional encryption methods closer to obsolescence. In response, cryptographers and security professionals are advancing post-quantum ...