Quantum computers may slam into hard architectural walls long before they can crack the encryption protecting online banking, ...

Two scientists just won computing's Nobel Prize for an idea from 1984: use quantum mechanics to make eavesdropping physically ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum computers—if validated, that is.

Someday, somebody, somewhere will likely have a quantum computer capable of cracking the fragile codes that underpin every piece of data we exchange over the internet. We don’t know when. It could be ...

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum information science. Their 1984 paper ...

Imagine a world where the locks protecting your most sensitive information—your financial records, medical history, or even national security secrets—can be effortlessly picked. This is the looming ...

Quantum cryptography poses two questions for higher education technology leaders: What matters now, and what will matter decades from now? These questions are inseparable because quantum computers of ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

Once quantum computers can crack modern encryption, the world’s largest cryptocurrency could become the most valuable target on Earth.

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...