In brief
- Quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin today, but progress is accelerating.
- New research suggests fewer resources may be needed to crack encryption.
- The real challenge, experts say, is upgrading before it’s needed.
Two new research papers—one from Google and another from Caltech researchers at startup Oratomic—have revived a long-running question in crypto. What happens when quantum computing becomes powerful enough to break modern cryptography?
Researchers warned this week that advances in the field could threaten the cryptographic systems underpinning cryptocurrencies and other digital infrastructure sooner than expected, showing that future machines may be able to break elliptic curve cryptography with fewer qubits and…
