A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.

Researchers claim to have broken RSA encryption using a quantum computer, but what really happened? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The RSA algorithm, in essence, allows a message to be encrypted without the sender knowing the key, says Lynn Batten, a mathematician and security researcher at Deakin University. Here's how it works.

“Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems,” the researchers wrote in the paper.

A group of Chinese researchers appears to have reached a milestone by breaking RSA encryption using a D-Wave processor. RSA, the foundation of many digital security protocols, relies on a dual-key ...

The method, outlined in a scientific paper published in late December, could be used to break the RSA algorithm that underpins most online encryption using a quantum machine with only 372 qubits ...

The attack was verified using randomly selected 1024-bit RSA keys and for several selected 2048-bit keys. The team has provided rough estimates on how long and how much it would cost attackers to ...