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The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

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India's critical digital infrastructure, including Aadhaar and UPI, requires urgent measures to ensure quantum-safe ...

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Quantum computing's rapid advancements pose an urgent threat to the security of digital assets and financial systems.

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The amount of quantum computing power needed to crack a common data encryption technique has been reduced tenfold. This makes the encryption method even more vulnerable to quantum computers, which may ...

Government agencies have been told to start to prepare for quantum computers able to break encryption around sensitive public data and lots of other types. It is part of a global race in the face of ...

About eight years ago, toward the end of a panel I was moderating on cybersecurity, I turned to the panelists and asked them to tell me what to expect when quantum computing would come online. I got ...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now embedded in the global financial system. Countries are creating strategic reserves, and institutional investors, from hedge funds to pension schemes, are ...