Experts warn quantum computers could someday forge Bitcoin’s digital signatures, allowing unauthorized transactions.

Explore what could happen to Satoshi’s 1 million BTC if quantum computers ever break early Bitcoin addresses and expose their private keys to the first Q-Day attacker.

A quantum computer algorithm that is used to find the prime factors in an encryption key. Created by applied mathematician Peter Shor in the mid-1990s, Shor's algorithm may be used to break the codes ...

Blockchain is one of the major revolutions that has taken the world by storm these past few years. It is an enabler of emerging supply chain, smart contract technologies, record management, clinical ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and ...

Three weeks ago, panic swept across some corners of the security world after researchers discovered a breakthrough that, at long last, put the cracking of the widely used RSA encryption scheme within ...