A team of physicists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has made a breakthrough that could bring secure quantum communication closer to everyday use—without needing flawless hardware. A major ...

The emergence of quantum computing and its ability to solve computations with incredible speed by harnessing the fundamental properties of quantum mechanics could revolutionize our world. But what ...

With the DPS protocol 21, the information-carrying quantum state is defined over many pulses from a coherent laser source. The sender, conventionally called Alice in the field of cryptography, ...

Quantum key distribution Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK generated a secure key containing over a million bits and used it to securely share an image between four users in the ...

The encryption that we rely on to secure network transactions is based on a simple computational challenge: it's hard to find two prime numbers when you're only given the big number that they produce ...

Andrew Jenkins has worked as an information analyst for an intelligence agency in Washington, D.C., for over 14 years. He is the author of the 2022 book, The Devil Made Crypto. Follow him on LinkedIn.

From applications in hospitals to automated cash machines, encryption is a crucial and ever-growing part of our digital world. It's what makes information interchange between different organisations ...