In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

According to the latest Google research, it could take as few as 1,200 logical qubits for a quantum computer to break ...

Quantum computing's rapid progress threatens blockchain security, demanding urgent new cryptographic solutions.

A fully-fledged quantum computer that can be used to solve real-world problems. For many computer scientists, the arrival of such a device would be their version of the Moon landings: the final ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

Google research shows future quantum computers could crack Bitcoin private keys in 9 minutes, threatening 6.9 million bitcoin ...

Report Details Risks and Benefits of Developing a Practical Quantum Computer, Identifies Metrics for Tracking Progress WASHINGTON – Given the current state of quantum computing and the significant ...