Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has raised a serious alarm for the cryptocurrency world: there’s a 20% chance that quantum computers could break current cryptographic systems by 2030. While this ...

Key takeawaysButerin sees a nontrivial 20% chance that quantum computers could break current cryptography before 2030, and he argues that Ethereum should begin preparing for that possibility.A key ...

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 ...

Bitcoin's long transaction history has left a large number of public keys visible, making it a central focus in the industry's security debate.

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new study published in the journal AVS Quantum Science describes the necessary conditions. The research team created a tool to determine how big a ...

I was at the Q2B quantum Computer conference today and there was a talk about NSM-10 and the change of the encryption that underlies global finance and data protection. In 2024, the US government will ...

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 ...