Quantum computing is advancing fast, and nations are racing to field the first machines powerful enough to break modern encryption. This race has direct consequences for the commercial space industry, ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

BTQ head of silicon product Sean Hackett details how quantum computers could break asymmetric encryption, impacting ...

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from ...

For years, the threat of quantum computing lived comfortably in the category of “interesting but distant,” but that comfort is gone.

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 ...

Quantum resource estimates suggest encryption barriers may fall faster than expected Reduced qubit requirements bring theoretical attacks closer to practical reality Bitcoin’s cryptographic ...

There is a slow-moving security crisis building beneath the surface of the digital world, and most people have ...

Advances in recent years suggest we are entering the Quantum Frontier Era. National security, science, economic competitiveness, and cybersecurity will all feel the impact.

Quantum computers don't need to be nearly as powerful as we thought to break the world's most secure encryption algorithms, scientists warn. New research claims that quantum computers can make widely ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...