What is quantum technology? Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds ...

Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...

The problem with the paper published earlier this month was its reliance on Schnorr's algorithm (not to be confused with Shor’s algorithm), which was developed in 1994.

Organizations responsible for data security cannot afford to wait for quantum to arrive before building their defenses.

Quantum computing threatens Bitcoin & digital systems like banking & payments. Can Bitcoin’s $2T incentive drive ...

A research team has achieved the holy grail of quantum computing: an exponential speedup that’s unconditional. By using clever error correction and IBM’s powerful 127-qubit processors, they tackled a ...

Like Shor’s algorithm, the new approach factors integers in a reasonable amount of time. The work also points to new possibilities for implementing continuous methods in quantum computing. “This paper ...

A factorization method known as Shor’s algorithm makes it theoretically possible to solve these types of problems. That, in turn, means certain death for many of the cryptographic schemes now ...

Although no quantum computer existed at the time, other mathematicians were able to confirm that Shor’s Algorithm, as it became known, could theoretically be used by such computers to break ...