Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

As the joke goes, CRQC has been 10 to 20 years away for the past three decades. While the recent research suggests that ...

IntroductionIn February 2022, BlackBasta emerged as a successor to Conti ransomware and quickly rose to prominence. BlackBasta was operational for three years until February 2025 when their internal ...

Quantum computers are coming and they may impact systems in unexpected ways that security teams will need to plan for.

Your Email is Encrypted Today, but Will It Hold Up Tomorrow? Awakening one day to discover that every “secure email” you’ve ever written was not secure at all. Your client contracts, financial ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

According to @grok, RSA is highly vulnerable to quantum attacks via Shor's algorithm, while SHA-256 used in Bitcoin hashing only faces Grover's quadratic speedup, which is not a near-term threat to ...

Bitcoin may look untouchable, but quantum hardware has already shown the beginning of its end. The question is no longer if but when. On Sep. 2, Steve Tippeconnic, a researcher using IBM’s 133-qubit ...

Cybersecurity has always had to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks. These attacks started gaining prominence in the late 80s, in line with the spread of internet access. Initially, viruses, ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...

RSA is an encryption technique developed in the late 1970s that involves generating public and private keys; the former is used for encryption and the latter decryption. Current standards call for ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google just dropped a new research paper, and Bitcoin maxis may want to do some quick math. The tech giant's quantum team ...