A 270-digit number has been returned to its two prime factorsOn September 19, 2026, researcher Stephen A. Weis, with the ...

The RSA algorithm (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) is a public key cryptosystem that uses a pair of keys to secure digital communication and transactions over insecure networks, such as the internet. RSA is a ...

RSA-896, a 270-digit encryption benchmark, was factored on September 19, 2026, by Anthropic engineer Stephen Weis using ...

A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...

The real challenge facing bank and insurer CIOs and CISOs is migrating decades-old, interdependent technology stacks before ...

Quantum cryptography has long promised a future in which sensitive computations can be carried out collectively without any single party learning the others’ secrets. A new study published in Q ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don't panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global ...

A recent research paper makes the claim that the RSA cryptographic algorithm can be broken with a quantum algorithm. Skeptics warn: don’t believe everything you read. Every CISO has encryption ...

Las Vegas — Within five years the math for cracking encryption algorithms could become so efficient that it may render today’s commonly used RSA public key cryptography algorithm obsolete, Black Hat ...

Elliptic curve encryption faces a new quantum threat: Georgia Tech researchers published an algorithm cutting both the qubit count and gate complexity for breaking P-256 and secp256k1. The 2026 ...