In cybersecurity, few threats are as paradoxical and pressing as the ones posed by quantum computing. Quantum computers ...

Quantum computers, using Shor's algorithm, could break the public-key cryptography (like ECDSA) that protects crypto wallets, ...

Safe Encryption Before It’s Too Late Cybersecurity has always had to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks. These attacks started gaining prominence in the late 80s, in line with ...

The rapid development of quantum computing is beginning to pose a real and urgent threat to current cryptographic systems.

Bitcoin, launched in 2009, uses secp256k1, an ECC system vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm, raising theoretical concerns. However, practical quantum computers remained far off, and no urgent action ...

Mathematics Approach PQC is based on identifying mathematical ciphers that are resistant to Shor’s algorithm, such as lattice-based and isogeny. NP-hard problems resist quantum attacks.

Shor told the magazine that he thought it was possible he might see this happen in his lifetime. At the December 2022 HIMSS Cybersecurity Forum in Boston, Matthew Scholl, division chief of NIST's ...

But current public-key systems are known to be vulnerable to decryption using a quantum algorithm devised by Peter Shor, a mathematician now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Shor’s algorithm will be able to break ECDSA-based keys, allowing attackers to derive Bitcoin private keys from public keys. In turn, this will mean that they can sign fraudulent transactions ...

Project Eleven, a quantum computing research organization, has announced the launch of the Q-Day Prize, a global challenge offering 1 BTC to the first team able to break an elliptic curve ...