Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Current quantum computers don’t possess enough qubits to crack classical encryption methods, but a flurry of new research suggests that the threshold ...

Franklin Templeton BEN0.64%increase; green up pointing triangle, a heavyweight in traditional stock- and bond-fund management, said it would buy a spinoff from the venture firm CoinFund to expand its ...

Google researchers warned that future quantum computers may be able to break some of the cryptography protecting Bitcoin and other digital assets with fewer resources than previously thought, adding ...

At an ornate building in the heart of Islamabad, Pakistan’s most powerful leaders gathered in January to welcome a special visitor: Zachary Witkoff, chief executive officer of World Liberty Financial, ...

Regulators just published a new classification scheme for how they will approach cryptocurrencies. Most of the leading coins will be classified as digital commodities. Under the new regulations, coins ...

The takeaway: A concept that once sounded like science fiction is now being recognized as essential to the survival of the digital world. This week, the Association for Computing Machinery awarded the ...

Crypto exchange Kraken, which announced four months ago that it planned to go public, has put its plan on hold, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The company is still considering ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as ...

CANADA - 2025/07/20: In this photo illustration, the Instagram logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (SOPA ...

Somewhere in the world right now, a cybercriminal is trying to steal your organization's encrypted data. They can't read it yet, but the technology needed to do so is rapidly approaching. When ready, ...