An independent researcher has achieved the largest public quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography, cracking a 15-bit key that underpins digital asset security. The feat, completed with publicly ...

Project Eleven, a quantum security research company, awarded a prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli for using a quantum computer to break a 15-bit elliptic-curve key — a small-scale version of the same ...

Quantum computer breaks Bitcoin-style encryption for the first time. Learn what this breakthrough means for BTC security and ...

The quantum threat to Bitcoin keeps inching closer, this time thanks to a researcher who broke a simplified cryptographic key ...

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, 512 times ...

Researcher derives a 15-bit ECC private key using quantum hardware. Another $100M+ crypto hack by December 31 at 100% YES.

When it comes to public key cryptography, most systems today are still stuck in the 1970s. On December 14, 1977, two events occurred that would change the world: Paramount Pictures released Saturday ...

We all know the usual jokes about the ‘S’ in ‘IoT’ standing for ‘Security’. It’s hardly a secret that security in embedded, networked devices (‘IoT devices’) is all too often a last-minute task that ...

Sometimes, it can take a decade or more before you get to say “I told you so.” Just ask Scott Vanstone. The founder of Certicom Corp. shifted his company from standard public-key cryptography systems ...

Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold Date: February 13, 2018 Source ...

A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) uses points on an elliptic curve to derive a 163-bit public key that ...