Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and NTT are to jointly develop an elliptic curve cryptosystem. “There is a pressing need to establish a fundamental technology to realise a truly secure communications ...

A July 15 report by global consulting firm Capgemini warns that public-key cryptographic systems, including RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), may be rendered obsolete by quantum machines in ...

According to one of the world’s leading cryptographers, Bitcoin’s elliptic curve could have a secret backdoor, invalidating all underlying security. A Bitcoin public key is created by applying ...

Rapidly rising cyber crime and the growing prospect of the Internet being used as a medium for terrorist attacks pose a major challenge for IT security. Cryptography is central to this challenge, ...

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