An international team of computer scientists has set a new record for integer factorization, one of the most important computational problems underlying the security of nearly all public-key ...

ESET's Cassius Puodzius takes an in-depth look at cryptography, exploring quantum computing (one of the resources in the toolkit of cryptanalysts). One of the resources in the toolkit of cryptanalysts ...

Researchers at China's Shanghai University have demonstrated how quantum mechanics could pose a realistic threat to current encryption schemes even before full-fledged quantum computers become ...

Quantum algorithms for integer factorisation employ quantum mechanical principles to decompose composite numbers into prime factors with greater efficiency than classical approaches. Central to this ...

The terms cryptology and cryptography are often confused or used synonymously, but they are not the same. Cryptology is a broad area that includes cryptography and cryptanalysis. It is derived from ...

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...