However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

Research suggests fault-tolerant quantum machines could arrive sooner than expected, posing a threat to Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptography.

Michele Mosca of the Institute for Quantum Computing and Dept. of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo and St. Jerome’s University, and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Anxieties over the quantum threat to Bitcoin have been growing, but Bernstein backs Back in saying there’s no cause for alarm ...