An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

Quantum computers may slam into hard architectural walls long before they can crack the encryption protecting online banking, ...

Nation-states and malicious actors are collecting encrypted data so they can read it with future quantum computers. These ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...

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 ...

A fully-fledged quantum computer that can be used to solve real-world problems. For many computer scientists, the arrival of such a device would be their version of the Moon landings: the final ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

Imagine waking up one day to find that all your confidential emails are suddenly an open book for anyone with a powerful enough computer. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, with the rapid ...

Quantum cryptography poses two questions for K–12 education technology leaders: What matters now, and what will matter decades from now? These questions are inseparable because quantum computers of ...