Post-quantum cryptography is a new type of encryption. It is made to resist attacks from quantum computers. PQC algorithms are not like regular cryptography. Regular cryptography uses math problems, ...

China has a national strategy to become a leader in quantum science, with significant funding and a goal for major ...

Recently, Professor Zong Chuanming from the Center for Applied Mathematics at Tianjin University published a paper titled ...

QKD uses photons — the smallest units of light — to securely transmit encryption keys. Any attempt to intercept them disturbs ...

A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity ...

So, you’ve probably heard a lot of buzz lately about quantum computers and how they might break RSA encryption. It sounds pretty scary, right? Like the internet as we know it is about to crumble. But ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Alaska Airlines and its regional subsidiary, Horizon Air, requested a ground stop to all flights Sunday night because of a computer system outage. The request to federal authorities kept Alaska and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

"ssh-rsa" is offered as host key algorithm by TSA for worker registration on port 2222. This seems to be flagged at least by some security scanners as "using deprecated SHA1 cryptographic settings to ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...