The RSA algorithm has become an encryption standard for many e-commerce security applications. The patent for it was issued to MIT on Sept. 20, 1983, and licensed exclusively to RSA Security.

And if the latter were able to break RSA, it would’ve already done so.” He concludes: “All told, this is one of the most actively misleading quantum computing papers I’ve seen in 25 years.” ...

Like most of the concerns about quantum computers in this area, the RSA paper is about an attack that may or may not work, and requires a machine that might never be built (the most powerful ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines don't yet exist, that estimate could still fall further ...

Such theoretical processes themselves will inevitably improve over time, as the paper about RSA algorithms is the latest to demonstrate. What we don’t know What remains extremely uncertain is both the ...

Adi Shamir, the S in the RSA algorithm and a cofounder of RSA Security, went off on cryptocurrency, saying its early promise has been wasted. While he said Satoshi Nakamoto's paper [PDF] on ...

The strength of an RSA encryption relates to the length of the integer — which defines how big the problem is. For example, a 50-bit integer has 9.67 x 10^16 possible values.

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