A paper shared with CoinDesk shows humans and AI agents beating Google’s March result on a core calculation used by Shor’s algorithm, adding another variable to crypto’s quantum clock.

IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi says Q-Day arrives in 2028, threatening Bitcoin's secp256k1 encryption. Here's what the timeline ...

Ahead of schedule, Metaculus now predicts that quantum computers could factor an RSA number using Shor's algorithm by 2034. This is almost 20 years sooner than the previous forecast of 2052. These ...

Quantum factor: the Paul trap used by Monz and colleagues. (Courtesy: C Lackner/Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy Group, University of Innsbruck) A quantum computer made of five trapped ions has been ...

A quantum computer algorithm that is used to find the prime factors in an encryption key. Created by applied mathematician Peter Shor in the mid-1990s, Shor's algorithm may be used to break the codes ...

When people talk about the “cryptopocalypse,” in which classical encryption methods are summarily rendered obsolete by quantum computing technology, they’re usually talking about Shor’s algorithm, ...

Almost every secure connection on the internet, from a bank’s login page to a messaging app, relies on math problems that an ...

Arxiv – Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer – Shor’s algorithm for factoring in polynomial time on a quantum computer gives an enormous advantage over all known classical ...