A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.

A group of Chinese researchers appears to have reached a milestone by breaking RSA encryption using a D-Wave processor. RSA, the foundation of many digital security protocols, relies on a dual-key ...

The strength of an RSA encryption relates to the length of the integer — which defines how big the problem is. For example, a 50-bit integer has 9.67 x 10^16 possible values.

“Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems,” the researchers wrote in the paper.

The attack was verified using randomly selected 1024-bit RSA keys and for several selected 2048-bit keys. The team has provided rough estimates on how long and how much it would cost attackers to ...

RSA tells developers to stop using encryption with suspected NSA backdoor. by Jeff Blagdon. Source Wired. Sep 20, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC. via s3.amazonaws.com. Earlier ...

A new research paper from a Google researcher slashed the estimated quantum resources needed to break RSA encryption, which is used by some crypto wallets. BTC $107,206.84 + 0.10 % ETH ...