Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...

Apple Inc. plans to update iMessage with a new encryption component, dubbed PQ3, that can block cyberattacks launched by quantum computers. Members of the company’s cybersecurity research team ...

Apple unveiled PQ3, “the most significant cryptographic security upgrade in iMessage history,” for iOS 17.4 on Feb. 21. With the new protocol, Apple becomes one of only a handful of providers ...

An iMessage upgrade with post-quantum cryptography will make Apple’s instant messaging platform ready to fend off future hackers. Today’s encryption methods likely won’t be able to stand up, which is ...

Apple has announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called PQ3. The tech giant says it’s “the most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the app’s history as it ...

Quantum computing is years away, but Apple's queued up its own custom iMessage protections to safeguard against quantum break-ins. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces.

NIST’s post-quantum public key encryption algorithm ML-KEM (a.k.a. CRYSTALS-Kyber) reduces to the hardness of solving ...

Security is a never-ending mission and today Apple has announced its latest innovation for protecting iMessage. Already live in the iOS 17.4 beta is an innovative post-quantum cryptographic protocol ...

Researchers at Toshiba Europe have used quantum key distribution (QKD) cryptography to send messages a record 254km using a traditional fibre optic cable network. It’s the first time scientists have ...

Quantum technology is moving from speculative physics to hard commercial reality, and the money, talent, and geopolitics lining up behind it look eerily similar to the early days of the internet and ...