A quantum computing deadline looms. It threatens to kick off the biggest cybersecurity crisis ever

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...
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Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...
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New Cryptography Must Be Developed and Deployed Now, Even Though A Quantum Computer That Could Compromise Today's Cryptography Is Likely At Least A Decade Away, Says New Report

Report Details Risks and Benefits of Developing a Practical Quantum Computer, Identifies Metrics for Tracking Progress WASHINGTON – Given the current state of quantum computing and the significant ...
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UAB computer science students win first place in cybersecurity division at regional hackathon

The team was composed of Hunter Forsythe of Hoover, McKinley Morris of Columbiana and Williams Beaumont of Homewood, who are all students in UAB’s nationally top-ranked Master of Science in ...
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An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...
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Huijia Lin proved that a master tool of cryptography is possible

A long-sought “holy grail” in cryptography is poised to change the way we protect sensitive information. Today’s standard encryption schemes take an all-or-nothing approach. Once scrambled, your data ...
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Computer Science Courses

As humans have come to rely on artificial intelligence to make decisions traditionally performed by bureaucrats and institutions, it is necessary to understand the ways in which various forms of ...
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Recent UCLA computer grad constructs “Crown Jewel of Cryptography”

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Aayush Jain receives the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Indistinguishability Obfuscation from ...
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Computer Science Major & Courses

At UT Computer Science, undergraduate students receive a rigorous educational experience, with options to pursue more than 50 courses that span the full spectrum of topics in modern computer science.