Kraken ransomware benchmarks systems for optimal encryption choice

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt ...
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Analysis on optimal ways to secure image encryption and decryption

Abstract: In the last two decades chaos has been among the most important cryptology design methods to design modern encryption algorithms. Suggestions were found to be very vulner-able towards simple ...
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IBM’s Quantum ‘Cat’ Roars: 120-Qubit Breakthrough Pushes Bitcoin’s Encryption Risk Closer

IBM researchers entangled 120 qubits, setting a new benchmark for quantum computing. The GHZ “cat state” achieved fidelity of 0.56, proving full multi-qubit entanglement. Direct Fidelity Estimation ...
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A Joint Image Encryption and Compression Algorithm Based on CycleGAN

Abstract: Digital images are easy to copy, spread, and tampering, therefore, protecting image contents in the digital era has emerged as a key focus of multimedia security research. Recently, ...
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X-day, when quantum computers will be able to decrypt RSA encryption and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), will be around 2030, but what should be done by then?

DEF CON 33, the world's largest security event held in Las Vegas in August 2025, Konstantinos Karagiannis, a leading expert in quantum computing and cybersecurity, gave a presentation titled ' ...