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News has been bubbling about an announcement by Google that it's starting to experiment with public-key cryptography that's resistant to cryptanalysis by a quantum computer. Specifically, it's...

Google has announced its first venture into post-quantum cryptography with the use of a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm in the Canary test build of the Chrome browser.


Last week, CIA director John Brennan told a Senate committee that there wasn't any strong cryptography outside of the US. CIA director John Brennan told US senators they shouldn't worry about...



Writing a magazine column is always an exercise in time travel. I'm writing these words in early December. You're reading them in February. This means anything that's news as I write this will be...

Ross Anderson liveblogged this year's Financial Cryptography conference....


The NSA is publicly moving away from cryptographic algorithms vulnerable to cryptanalysis using a quantum computer. It just published a FAQ about the process: Q: Is there a quantum resistant...