Quantum cryptography pioneers win Turing Award for unhackable encryption breakthrough

The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum information science. Their 1984 paper ...

Qihoo 360 accidentally exposed a private SSL key, putting its platform at risk

Qihoo 360 recently shipped its 360 Security Claw AI assistant, a tool designed to rein in the viral AI agent OpenClaw. However, the installer contained a ...

Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...

Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here’s how it works.

Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners. Suddenly, these often-overlooked players in the “age-assurance” ecosystem ...
InfoQ

Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK ...
IEEE

PQ-Hammer: End-to-End Key Recovery Attacks on Post-Quantum Cryptography Using Rowhammer

Abstract: As post-quantum cryptography (PQC) nears standardization and eventual deployment, it is increasingly important to understand the security of the implementations of selected schemes. In this ...
IEEE

Dynamic Group Key Exchange Protocol With Lattice Trapdoor and Re-Encryption Mechanisms

Abstract: Post-quantum group key exchange protocols have become an increasingly critical area of research due to the potential threat quantum computers pose to classical cryptographic schemes.