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 computing has been touted as a revolutionary advance that uses our growing scientific understanding of the subatomic world to create a machine with powers far ...

Photonic "SHYPS to Shor’s: A Call for Distributed QRE" Whitepaper Photonic "SHYPS to Shor’s: A Call for Distributed QRE" Whitepaper VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ...

The Startup Alice and Bob have been working on the cat qubit. Alice & Bob is a Paris-based quantum computing startup founded in 2020 by Théau Peronnin and Raphaël Lescanne, with a mission to build the ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a gigantic ...