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 ...

To give an example illustrating what I mean, for decades people have been trying to attack regular elliptic curve cryptography, including some who have tried using approaches based on genus 2 curves.

Several initiatives are now under way to identify and develop post-quantum cryptographic algorithms organizations can deploy to become quantum-resilient. For example, NIST launched a global ...

Scholl said that the fourth algorithm, Falcon, which was selected as a winning algorithm in 2022 along with the other three, will be released for implementation later this year.

"These algorithms should cover most devices that have these sorts of resource constraints." NIST selected Ascon in 2019 as the primary candidate for lightweight authenticated encryption, so it's ...