But RSA worked until the advent of quantum computers. These machines harness the physics of subatomic particles to process information in fundamentally different ways, including factoring long strings ...

Quantum computing’s threat to encryption is - conceptually at least – very simple. One day, perhaps quite soon, a quantum computer may be able to ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

However, it is not necessary to use fancy quantum cryptography technology such as entanglement to avoid the looming quantum ...

In February, a research team published a new architecture showing that RSA-2048, the encryption standard underpinning most of the internet’s security, could be broken with fewer than 100,000 physical ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

The encryption protecting global banking, government communications, and digital identity does not fail when a quantum ...

According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as ...

Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s ...

Today, April 14th, 2026, is designated World Quantum Day, and we will invariably celebrate breakthroughs in medicine, materials, ...