In a nutshell: Researchers at China's Tsinghua University believe they have discovered a quantum-based algorithm capable of breaking today's most complex encryption standards. The team claims that the ...
Recent research papers posted to arXiv have sharply reduced the estimated computing power a quantum machine would need to ...
Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.
Imagine if, tomorrow, someone invented a “digital skeleton key” that could unlock any keyless entry system. Overnight, millions of door locks, garages and practically every modern vehicle would become ...
Encryption is a term that many of us have come across, but what does it mean? To put it simply, encryption is the encoding of information. Various online services use it to keep your data private and ...
Encrypting your communications -- even using the strongest algorithm possible -- gives you no extra legal privacy rights, according to the good professor Orin Kerr. Kerr recently blogged his 2001 law ...
Susan Landau has a research grant from Google. In the past she has received funding from NSF. She participates in a Berkman Center group that periodically publishes whitepapers on security and privacy ...