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 ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography. The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted ...

Quantum researchers are offering 1 Bitcoin to whoever cracks the biggest “toy version” of a Bitcoin key using Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer. Quantum computing research firm Project Eleven has ...

Taiwan has advanced significantly in developing quantum computing technology, as a National Central University research team on studying the feasibility of executing the Shor algorithm has ...