Its widely believed that only about 25% to 30% of Bitcoin is at risk of being attacked in the future by quantum computers. For example, Project 11s Bitcoin Risq List currently lists 6,887,180 Bitcoin ...

Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that means, and why the world is already preparing for the worst.

TFQCB is a Quantum Cryptography Benchmark created by Automatski. It is part of a larger suite of benchmarks used by Automatski to evaluate its quantum computers, which have not yet been released ...

ABSTRACT: We show that any semiprime number can be factorized as the product of two prime numbers in the form of a kernel factor pair of two out of 48 root numbers. Specifically, each natural number ...

ABSTRACT: We show that any semiprime number can be factorized as the product of two prime numbers in the form of a kernel factor pair of two out of 48 root numbers. Specifically, each natural number ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...

For the last two days my inbox (and LinkedIn messages) has been flooded with questions about headlines claiming that “Chinese researchers broke RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening ...

Ever wonder how quantum computers might change the world? One big area people talk about is factoring numbers. It sounds kind of boring, right? But it’s actually a huge deal for how we keep our online ...

Prime numbers are essential for technologies like RSA encryption, which rely on the difficulty of guessing these numerals. A new paper shows that another area of mathematics called integer partition ...

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya has warned that Google revealed breaking common encryption might be closer than we thought. “If this is even remotely true, combined with everything else ...