Inside the quest for unbreakable encryption
Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not…
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Cryptographers want encryption schemes that are impossible for tomorrow’s quantum computers to crack. There’s only one catch: they might not…
Prime numbers are tricky things. We learn in school that they’re numbers with no factors other than 1 and themselves,…
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In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a…
Five years ago, computer scientist Alan Fern and his colleagues at Oregon State University, in Corvallis, set out to answer…
Imagine going to your local hardware store and seeing a new kind of hammer on the shelf. You’ve heard about…
In the 1970s, the late mathematician Paul Cohen, the only person to ever win a Fields Medal for work in…
More than 70 years ago, researchers at the forefront of artificial intelligence research introduced neural networks as a revolutionary way…
In 1998, a few dozen computer scientists and mathematicians gathered at a picturesque seaside resort on the Tuscan island of…
Armies of zombie computers caused a lot of mayhem in 2018. In January, one cluster of infected, connected machines attacked…