With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening -- yes, with a microphone-- to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.