Chinese scientists at Shanghai University have determined that a quantum computer from the Canadian firm D-Wave can effectively crack a popular encryption method. The paper details two technical ...

Much has been bantered about how advances in quantum computing will adversely affect the ability of companies and governments to keep secret information, well, secret. Jeffery Moore, chief of UK’s ...

Google has published a threat model for the arrival of quantum computers that can crack commonly used cryptosystems such as RSA and ECC. "If we do not encrypt our data with a quantum-secure algorithm ...