It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

Hardware faults are leaking hundreds of supposedly unbreakable encryption keys on to the internet, researchers have found – and spy agencies may be exploiting the loophole to read secret messages. RSA ...

The discovery of quantum mechanics opened the door to fundamentally new ways of communicating, processing, and protecting data. With a quantum revolution well underway, long unimaginable opportunities ...

Governments have no monopoly on quantum science, meaning that a breakthrough could come as a complete surprise—and that its ...

In theory, we've had this licked for hundreds of years. We've long known how to create totally unbreakable encryption, ciphers so strong that no amount of modern supercomputing power could brute force ...

A Swiss technology company says it has made a breakthrough by using quantum computers to uncover vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption. Terra Quantum AG said its discovery “upends the current ...

Republican senatators have proposed a new bill that would end the use of unbreakable encryption by tech companies on the basis that it helps “terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit ...

Cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication, and the impact of those attacks is increasing almost exponentially as the amount and value of data continues to grow. Cybersecurity ...

Chinese scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in quantum optics, creating a tiny device that spits out pairs of ...