Quantum computing isn’t mainstream yet, but the security implications are already on tech leaders’ radars. Today’s widely used public-key encryption standards were designed for classical computers, ...

Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

Quantum computers will eventually pose a problem to standard encryption, warns Wakako Maeda, a manager in the quantum cryptography team at NEC Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. As far back as 1994, it was ...