The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Quantum computers powerful enough to break widely used public-key encryption aren’t here yet, but migration won’t be as ...

International Business Machines Corporation IBM recently announced that two of its developed algorithms have been formally incorporated into the world’s first post-quantum cryptography standards, ...

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced new post-quantum cryptography capabilities designed to help customers protect data from emerging quantum security threats. The new PQC ...

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it ...

Fabric Cryptography, a startup focused on hardware, has raised $33 million in a Series A fundraising round co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx. Other participating investors included Offchain Labs, ...

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is an asymmetric encryption approach that relies on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves defined over finite fields. By offering equivalent security to ...

After years of review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen three encryption algorithms as the basis for its post-quantum security strategy. After years of review, the ...

Quantum computing has long been portrayed as a looming threat to cybersecurity. Headlines warn of “Q-Day”—the moment when quantum machines will render today’s encryption useless. But behind the hype ...

Learn about cryptographic hash functions in ensuring secure communication and protection of sensitive information, including ...

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 ...