The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives ...

Quantum Computers Could Help Hackers Defeat Encryption. Here’s How to Protect Your Data New tools are available in the fight against the formidable power of quantum computers.

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal two NSA programs that seek to build a "useful quantum computer" that can break all known forms of classical encryption. Such a quantum computer would ...

To grasp the scale, a quantum computer could do in a day what the world’s current fastest supercomputer would need millennia to accomplish: break RSA-2048 encryption, an algorithm that’s the ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

The Commerce Department is proposing the work of two Belgian cryptographers for the nation's new Advanced Encryption Standard, which is to be used in federal computer systems and in the private ...