Cryptography

Prof. Michael Rabin. Credit: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Michael Rabin, one of the founding fathers of computer science, transformed mathematical ideas into the foundations of the digital world

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The Turing Award and Israel Prize winner made fundamental contributions to automata, probabilistic algorithms, complexity, and cryptography, and helped build the academic infrastructure of computer science in Israel.
Post-quantum cryptography. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Scientists from China: We cracked encryption using a quantum computer

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Although the necessary hardware does not yet exist, researchers report that they have been able to implement a protocol to break RSA ciphers. What does this mean for internet safety?
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