Widely used encryption algorithms like RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) will be pointless. Depending on who is running the quantum computers, they will turn from superhero to supervillain.

The best encryption algorithms, though, were designed to be non-linear. Algorithms like AES or SHA rely upon repeatedly scrambling the data by passing it through a set of functions known as S-boxes.

Offering up to $120,000 in rewards, Naoris is challenging researchers to break the cryptographic primitives that secure major ...

Some encryption technologies, such as hardware security modules, were available with the pre-PQC standard algorithms years ago. Now that the actual standards are out, however, it's time to upgrade ...

Hashing is a one-way cryptographic function while encryption is designed to work both ways. Encryption algorithms take input and a secret key and generate a random looking output called a ...

The new PQC algorithm standards are a significant milestone in creating strong encryption that the advanced computers of the future won’t be able to crack.

Encryption works by scrambling data or text into what appears to be nonsense, using an algorithm and a key that only the sender and recipient can use to unlock the data. These algorithms can, in ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines don't yet exist, that estimate could still fall further ...