SES CEO Steve Collar (seated, left) and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher sign the contract for the Eagle-1 spacecraft at the International Astronautical Congress Sept. 22. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As quantum computing advances, traditional encryption faces growing risks from powerful new algorithms. In a bid to address these ...

“Given the legal questions around the patentability of software and computing technology, tech companies have found it hard to project the proper approach for patenting these types of technologies.

For years, tech companies have struggled between two impulses: the need to encrypt users' data to protect their privacy and the need to detect the worst sorts of abuse on their platforms. Now Apple is ...

NEC has delayed the introduction of its first quantum cryptography system by three to four years due to performance and cost issues, the company said Tuesday. NEC had originally planned to start ...

Quantum cryptography? Pah! That's for newbies, according to researchers from Texas A&M University who claim to have pioneered unbreakable cryptography based on the laws of thermodynamics; classical ...

Once quantum computers become functional, experts warn, they could perform calculations exponentially faster than classical computers—potentially enabling them to destroy the encryption that currently ...

LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An SES-led consortium of 20 European companies, with the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Commission support, will design, develop, launch and operate the EAGLE-1 ...

The first bank transfer performed using quantum cryptography based on entangled photons takes place in Vienna's sewers. A quantum cryptography system is the last thing you would expect to find in a ...

Researchers have produced a collision in iOS’s built-in hash function, raising new concerns about Apple’s CSAM-scanning system — but Apple says the finding does not threaten the integrity of the ...

“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” Satoshi wrote in an Oct. 31 email in 2008. Today marks 15 years since the pseudonymous ...