Treasury to help financial firms transition to quantum-resistant encryption

The government is concerned that hackers someday will be able to decrypt financial information and other secrets using ...
Wired

A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

Anthropic said its Mythos model—which currently remains available only to a select group of trusted users—was able to advance attacks against two cryptosystems. The first system is HAWK, a digital ...
Quanta Magazine

Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade

Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics. In our increasingly digital lives, ...
VentureBeat

The truth about quantum risk cryptography and being ‘quantum safe’

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The creation of classical computing may have paved the way for the modern ...
Business Wire

First Post Quantum Cryptographic Algorithm Certificates Issued

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NIST published the final version of FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) on August 13, 2024, making the first post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) ...

A Deadline No One Can Negotiate Is Coming for the World's Encryption, and the Race to Get Ready Has Quietly Begun

A regulatory clock is driving demand. Governments and standards bodies have finalized quantum-resistant algorithms and set migration timelines, turning post-quantum readiness from an optional exercise ...
TechCrunch

The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...
Homeland Security Today

NIST Selects ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Algorithms to Protect Small Devices

Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a victor in their ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Algorithms That Will Protect Data In The Quantum Era

There is no doubt that quantum computers will play a significant role in helping the world solve complex challenges not possible on current classical computers. However, quantum computers also pose a ...
techtarget

What is cryptography?

Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications using codes, so that only those for whom the information is intended can read and process it. In computer science, cryptography ...
Phys.org

Q&A: Algorithm to serve as cryptography standard for quantum computing era

Mathematicians often toil in obscurity, and that's likely because few people, apart from fellow mathematicians who share the same sub-specialty, understand what they do. Even when algorithms have ...