Quantum computing threats to Ethereum and Bitcoin may arrive sooner than expected. Vitalik Buterin and leading researchers ...

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 ...

Vitalik Buterin warns quantum computing could break Bitcoin and Ethereum’s cryptography by 2028, urging developers to act ...

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has emerged as a cornerstone of modern public‐key systems, offering high levels of security with relatively small key sizes. Central to many advanced cryptographic ...

Quantum computing’s accelerating breakthroughs are forcing the crypto sector to confront a long-anticipated question. How ...

“Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), as one of the public key cryptography systems, has been widely applied to many security applications. It is challenging to implement a scalar multiplication (SM) ...

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ...

Encryption is a key technology for federal agencies. Although encryption is the primary goal, many encryption systems depend on a combination of tools to accomplish other tasks. Public-key ...

This chapter excerpted from Hardware Implementation of Finite-Field Arithmetic, gives an example of finite-field application—namely, the implementation of the scalar product (point multiplication) ...