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Cracking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10x easier

A team at Google Quantum AI, led by researcher Craig Gidney, has shown that breaking RSA-2048 encryption could require roughly 20 times fewer physical qubits than previously estimated, collapsing the ...
The Edge Singapore

Local start-up Aires targets compliance-driven quantum encryption market

Aires is helping firms upgrade encryption for the quantum era without costly system overhauls. Its software-led approach will also keep the company profitable.
Threat Post

SSH Configuration on Nexpose Servers Allowed Weak Encryption Algorithms

Rapid7 warned this week that its Nexpose appliances were shipped with a SSH configuration that could have let obsolete algorithms be used for key exchange. Rapid7 encouraged owners of its Nexpose ...
Dark Reading

Cracking Weak Cryptography Before Quantum Computing Does

BLACK HAT EUROPE 2023 – London – Researchers from Microsoft, its GitHub subsidiary, and Spain-based Banco Santander here today released a set of open source tools that identify and pinpoint weak ...
FedScoop

NIST releases three encryption standards to prepare for future quantum attacks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has officially released three new encryption standards that are designed to fortify cryptographic protections against future cyberattacks by quantum ...
Bleeping Computer

US NIST unveils winning encryption algorithm for IoT data protection

NIST also considered that the algorithm had withstood the test of time, having been developed in 2014 by a team of cryptographers from Graz University of Technology, Infineon Technologies, Lamarr ...