Quantum computers and PQC are both enormously complex. But the common process for cracking RSA public key encryption is ...

PKI algorithms like RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) use “trapdoor” math problems that are easy to solve in one direction but immensely difficult to calculate in reverse.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Widely used encryption algorithms like RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) will be pointless. Depending on who is running the quantum computers, they will turn from superhero to supervillain.

Modern encryption algorithms exploit the fact that we can easily take two large primes and multiply them together to get a new, super-large number, but that no computer yet created can take that ...

Right now, it’s difficult for current or “classical” computers to break the modern encryption algorithms that protect internet communications — that means anything from text messages to ...

Modern encryption algorithms hold trueo these two main concepts but are vastly more complex. An encryption system is only as good as the number of possible keys to decrypt it.

Barriers like encryption. If you use the Internet, own a smartphone, or have a PC, then your data is at some point protected by encryption, though you may not know it.

The scale of the encryption-cracking challenge Today’s encryption algorithms can be broken. Their security derives from the wildly impractical lengths of time it can take to do so.