Google DeepMind has published new research showing that AI agents, working under human supervision, can dramatically accelerate cryptanalysis — the discipline of ...

Quantum computing poses a great opportunity but also a great threat to internet security; certain mathematical problems that form the basis of today’s most popular cryptographic algorithms will be ...

RSA-2048’s days may be numbered. A new preprint suggests quantum computers could crack the encryption in just three days.

Three weeks ago, panic swept across some corners of the security world after researchers discovered a breakthrough that, at long last, put the cracking of the widely used RSA encryption scheme within ...

RSA is dead, long live RSA! At the end of December 2022, Chinese researchers published a paper claiming that they can crack RSA encryption using current-generation quantum computing. For decades, the ...

Alice & Bob has announced that it has set a record low for the total quantum resources (qubits multiplied by runtime) ...

French quantum computing startup Alice & Bob estimates that 23,000 cat qubits could break RSA-2048 encryption in three days, ...

Google DeepMind researchers have used AI agents to discover cryptographic techniques that expose weaknesses ...

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...