A quantum computing deadline looms. It threatens to kick off the biggest cybersecurity crisis ever

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...
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Quantum computers may break today’s encryption much sooner than scientists expected

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of ...
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Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...
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An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

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 ...
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A Quantum Leap in Information Science

A chance meeting during a dip in the ocean was the first step on the road to quantum information science.
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Beyond encryption: Why quantum computing might be more of a science boom than a cybersecurity bust

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