The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...

Bitcoin may look untouchable, but quantum hardware has already shown the beginning of its end. The question is no longer if but when. On Sep. 2, Steve Tippeconnic, a researcher using IBM’s 133-qubit ...

The X509_NAME_hash_ex method used by X509_issuer_name_hash and X509_subject_name_hash currently uses the SHA1 algorithm to generate the hash (and has since MD5 usage was deprecated long ago). However, ...

Hashing is a cryptographic process that allows converting any type of data into a unique fixed-size numeric value called “hash”. Hashes are generated using hashing algorithms that are both ...

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I have been trying to exploit the attack known as “Golden Certificate” using Certipy and have experienced some errors specific to this scenario. The CA is located on a fairly old Windows machine (I ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...