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With 2024 fast becoming a pivotal year for quantum technologies, attention is turning to how quantum computers will soon be capable of easily cracking our current encryption standards. 'Harvest now, ...

But PQC, PQ3, post-quantum cryptography—just what do all these terms mean? Here’s what you need to know about post-quantum encryption and why it will be critical in protecting our most sensitive data ...

Michael Gao, the co-founder of California-based start-up Fabric Cryptography, makes a bold claim. “We’re going to do for cryptography what Nvidia has done for artificial intelligence (AI),” he says.

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An IBM quantum computer during a 2023 inauguration event. Last week, a cybersecurity-focused trade group for the financial services industry released a whitepaper advocating for banks and other ...

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 ...

For the last five years, the FIDO Alliance -- led by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (with other companies in tow) -- has been blazing a trail toward a future where passwords are no longer necessary in ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don't panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global ...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has enlisted quantum-safe encryption pioneer Arqit Quantum to help lead on the UK’s looming migration to post-quantum cryptography. The NCSC’s PQC Pilot ...

Do your favorite sites even support passkeys? Join us on a typical passkey journey from discovery to registration to authentication to deletion. Read now Passkeys are often described as a passwordless ...

An end-to-end strategy must factor in all the ways the data can be input and output, as well as how it’s stored Here’s a sobering prediction: One-third of all adults in the United States will have ...