Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing pioneer ...

Day, when an algorithm written more than 30 years ago could run on a quantum computer and compromise the security of data on ...

Graduate student Seyoon Ragavan led the work alongside senior author Vinod Vaikuntanathan, a computer science professor at ...

It’s proven that today’s encryption is vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently mature quantum computer running Shor’s ...

Ahead of schedule, Metaculus now predicts that quantum computers could factor an RSA number using Shor's algorithm by 2034. This is almost 20 years sooner than the previous forecast of 2052. These ...

A quantum computer algorithm that is used to find the prime factors in an encryption key. Created by applied mathematician Peter Shor in the mid-1990s, Shor's algorithm may be used to break the codes ...

Shor’s algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions ...