In July, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies selected four cryptography algorithms as national standards for public key security in order to prepare for an era of quantum computers, ...

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Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

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The first draft standards for quantum-resistant public key cryptography based on algorithms chosen by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) are now available for public comment.

Quantum computers stand a good chance of changing the face computing, and that goes double for encryption. For encryption methods that rely on the fact that brute-forcing the key takes too long with ...

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