The history of cryptography, the art of writing and solving codes, dates back to ancient times when people used simple substitution ciphers to encrypt messages. Over the centuries, cryptography has ...

Andrew Fenton is a writer and editor at Cointelegraph with more than 25 years of experience in journalism and has been covering cryptocurrency since 2018. He spent a decade working for News Corp ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

In this digital era, many of us benefit from encryption multiple times a day without ever realizing it. When you visit a secured website such as your bank’s website or an online retailer, cryptography ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don't panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

Having steered cybersecurity at major global banks for over two decades, I've seen technology change the game time and again. Now, quantum computing is stepping onto the field, bringing with it a ...

In today's digital world, where security breaches can expose millions of records in seconds, and quantum computing is quickly moving from theory to reality, traditional cryptographic systems are under ...

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