Researcher breaks ECC key using quantum hardware, raising concerns about Bitcoin security and urging faster shift to post-quantum protection systems.

A new quantum computing demonstration has renewed focus on the long-term security of cryptocurrencies, after a researcher ...

Researcher breaks 15-bit ECC key on publicly accessible quantum hardware in a 512x jump from the previous public ...

Project Eleven awards 1 BTC after a record quantum ECC break raises new security concerns for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...

Quantum advances have not broken heavy-duty encryption yet, but seem well on their way to expose what we’ve long kept ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble ...

A critical vulnerability in the wolfSSL SSL/TLS library can weaken security via improper verification of the hash algorithm ...

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, 512 times ...

Today, April 24, Giancarlo Lelli, an Italian researcher, was awarded a one-Bitcoin prize after the world’s largest ...

Last summer saw security giant Palo Alto Networks update its firewall operating system with quantum-optimized hardware to ...