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New Cryptography Must Be Developed and Deployed Now, Even Though A Quantum Computer That ...

Report Details Risks and Benefits of Developing a Practical Quantum Computer, Identifies Metrics for Tracking Progress WASHINGTON – Given the current state of quantum computing and the significant ...
Wired

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 ...
PBS

Cryptography: Crash Course Computer Science #33

Today we’re going to talk about how to keep information secret, and this isn’t a new goal. We’re going to walk you through some common encryption techniques such as the Advanced Encryption Standard ...
The New Yorker

Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing

Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles’s leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might get the impression that hackers can ...
Wired

Is That Quantum Computer for Real? There May Finally Be a Test

In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands of times faster. The media coverage sent ...
insider.si.edu

History of cryptography and cryptanalysis codes, ciphers, and their algorithms John F. Dooley

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...
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 ...
Drexel University

Computer Encryption

To ensure that data is kept safe and secure, all new computers are delivered with full disk encryption enabled, and computers in use prior to the data encryption initiative will be manually encrypted ...
ExtremeTech

Is the NSA trying to warn us that cryptography is dead?

Back in August, the NSA released an updated advisory(Opens in a new window) that was at once interesting and expected: It said that the world had to prepare for the ...
EDN

The NSA warns us cryptography is dead

A few months back, the National Security Agency (NSA) released a statement saying that the world must prepare for Quantum computers and that these devices could diminish any existing computer ...
ExtremeTech

The NSA is building a quantum computer to crack almost every kind of encryption

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal two NSA programs that seek to build a "useful quantum computer" that can break all known forms of classical encryption. Such a quantum computer would ...