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- New Research Exposes Significant Security Flaws in U.S. Defense Cryptographic Standard HALFLOOP
Published: Apr 25, 2026
Section: Technology
A team of researchers led by Shaozhen Chen has successfully executed advanced "related-key boomerang attacks" on the HALFLOOP block cipher, a standard used by the U.S. Department o...
- New Cryptographic Framework "BEATS" Uses Incremental Computation to Solve Blockchain's Signature Bottleneck
Published: Apr 25, 2026
Section: Technology
Researchers have developed a scalable batch verification system for ECDSA signatures that significantly reduces the computational burden on blockchain networks. By utilizing Increm...
- White House Urged to Accelerate Quantum-Resistant Cryptography Deadlines Amid Rapid Private Sector Gains
Published: Apr 23, 2026
Section: Technology
Chief technologists are warning that the federal government’s current 2035 deadline for quantum-safe migration is dangerously out of sync with private sector progress and adversary...
- New York Times Unmasks British Cryptographer Adam Back as Alleged Bitcoin Creator
Published: Apr 10, 2026
Section: Currencies
A landmark 12,000-word investigation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou claims that Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash, is the true identity behind Satoshi Nakamo...
- Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun Unveils Working Prototype for Bitcoin Quantum-Resistant Wallet Rescue
Published: Apr 9, 2026
Section: Currencies
Olaoluwa “Roasbeef” Osuntokun has developed a functional prototype designed to prevent millions of Bitcoin wallets from becoming permanently frozen during a future quantum-defense...
- Quantum Information Pioneers Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard Receive 2025 Turing Award for Secure Communication Breakthroughs
Published: Mar 19, 2026
Section: Science & Tech
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard as recipients of the 2025 A.M. Turing Award for establishing the foundations of quantum inf...
- Quantum Algorithm Breakthrough Outpaces Classical Methods in High Dimensional Data Complement Sampling Tasks
Published: Feb 23, 2026
Section: Research
Researchers Marcello Benedetti, Harry Buhrman, and Jordi Weggemans have demonstrated a provable quantum advantage in sample complexity, showing that quantum processors can solve sp...