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European Space Agency wants in on quantum comms satellites
2018-05-03 21:08

It's fun to kick entangled photons into spaaaace The European Space Agency is looking to build a communications satellite to send data securely using quantum key distribution.…

Boffins think classical crypto can outlive quantum computers
2018-04-16 05:58

Cisco backs Isara's post-quantum PKI cert test in the hope it future-proofs TLS Cisco and quantum security outfit Isara reckon they've got at least as far as alpha stage in one a problem of the...

Boffins pull off quantum leap in true random number generation
2018-04-11 20:49

Well, we been having some difficulty. Ziggy, he's, uh, spitting out some wild values A team of physicists claim to have developed a guaranteed random number generator using photons and the laws of...

Firefox news: Fresh releases, Firefox Quantum for Enterprise, privacy protections
2018-03-14 16:54

Firefox 59 (for desktop and mobile) and Firefox ESR 52.7 have been released to the public. Privacy enhancements and security fixes The former sports some performance enhancements that should lead...

Post-Quantum Algorithms
2017-12-27 12:28

NIST has organized a competition for public-key algorithms secure against a quantum computer. It recently published all of its Round 1 submissions. (Details of the NIST efforts are here. A...

Firefox Quantum: Security and privacy improvements
2017-11-15 16:48

Mozilla has released Firefox 57, aka Firefox Quantum, and it comes with many performance improvements. It sports a new browsing engine that takes full advantage of the processing power in modern...

Firefox’s major Quantum upgrade now rolling out to everyone
2017-11-14 14:00

It's as much as twice as fast as it was a year ago.

Firefox 57 "Quantum" Released – 2x Faster Web Browser
2017-11-14 09:27

It is time to give Firefox another chance. The Mozilla Foundation today announced the release of its much awaited Firefox 57, aka Quantum web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which claims to...

Quantum Dawn War Games Test Cyber Resiliency in Finance Sector
2017-11-10 14:02

Quantum Dawn IV, a large-scale exercise  to test the cyber resiliency of the U.S. finance sector, was held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The excercise had more than 900 participants from...

The race to quantum supremacy and its cybersecurity impact
2017-10-26 13:00

Quantum computing uses the power of atoms to perform memory and processing tasks and remains a theoretical concept. However, it is widely believed that its creation is possible. Most experts now...