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Computer Scientists Achieve the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

Quantum computer breaks 15-bit elliptic curve cryptographic key

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...
Computer Weekly

Deep dive into quantum-resistant cryptography for email security

Imagine waking up one day to find that all your confidential emails are suddenly an open book for anyone with a powerful enough computer. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, with the rapid ...
Daily Trojan

First USC student wins Machtey Award

Huang, a Ph.D. candidate studying computer science, is the first USC student to win the Machtey Award, a prestigious prize ...
The Verge

The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography

New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time New techniques could stand up to the power of a quantum computer — if we implement them in time In 2016, ...
CNN

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 ...
VentureBeat

Cloudflare’s post-quantum cryptography protects almost a fifth of the internet

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The countdown to Y2Q, the day when quantum ...
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What Is the Difference Between Quantum Cryptography and Post-Quantum Cryptography?

To understand the difference between quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography, it’s helpful to go back in time: In the early 1990s, Peter Shor of AT&T Bell Laboratories discovered an ...
CoinDesk

Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography

Polygon Labs, a major developer of Ethereum layer-2 networks, shared Tuesday it is unveiling a new type of computer chip that's optimized for zero-knowledge cryptography processing, built by hardware ...
Quanta Magazine

The Computer Scientist Who’s Boosting Privacy on the Internet

Harry Halpin wants our internet conversations to be more private. He’s helped create a new kind of network that might make it possible. Harry Halpin works on internet privacy for many reasons, but ...
Scientific American

Will Quantum Computers Upend Cryptography as We Know It?

Jeffery DelViscio: Quantum and cryptography: those are two words that might strike fear in the minds of the uninitiated. But in February’s issue of Scientific American, we have a story about how ...
CoinDesk

Coinbase advisory board says quantum computing threat is on the horizon, crypto needs a plan

The 50-page paper concludes that while today’s blockchains remain secure, a future “fault-tolerant quantum computer” capable ...