Security News

A step toward practical quantum encryption over free-space networks (Help Net Security)
2017-08-25 13:00

Researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon through the air above a city. The demonstration showed that it could one day be practical to...

Chinese Quantum Satellite Sends First ‘Unhackable’ Data to Earth (The Hackers News)
2017-08-10 03:28

In what appears to be the world's first quantum satellite transmission, China has successfully sent an "unbreakable" code over a long distance from an orbiting satellite to the Earth, achieving a...

Quantum Computing's Threat to Public-key Cryptosystems (Security Week)
2017-06-19 15:56

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Post-Quantum RSA (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-31 11:31

Interesting research on a version of RSA that is secure against a quantum computer: Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein, Nadia Heninger, Paul Lou, and Luke Valenta Abstract: This paper proposes...

First post-quantum cryptography on a contactless security chip (Help Net Security)
2017-05-30 15:10

Due to their computing power, quantum computers have the disruptive potential to break various currently used encryption algorithms. Infineon Technologies has successfully demonstrated the first...

Advantages of quantum processing shown in head-to-head race (Help Net Security)
2017-05-12 13:00

A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional, classical processor in a race to solve a puzzle, figuring out a secret combination up to 100 times faster by using exotic physics to...

The security threat of quantum computing is real, and it’s coming fast (Help Net Security)
2017-03-09 13:30

The threat quantum computers pose on encryption is weighing on the minds of some of the world’s most technologically advanced nations: In 2016 alone, the EU announced a $1.13B investment in the...