The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...

Random number generators have been around for ages, but they often have subtle imperfections that cause patterns to emerge.

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

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 ...

A chance meeting during a dip in the ocean was the first step on the road to quantum information science.

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

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