The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Abstract: Collaborative searchable encryption for group data sharing enables a consortium of authorized users to collectively generate trapdoors and decrypt search results. However, existing ...

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Maria Violaris works on quantum foundations as an academic visitor at the University of Oxford, UK, and on quantum computing at Oxford Quantum Circuits, Reading, UK. Norma G. Sanchez, is the founder ...

“Data we encrypt today is still valuable and vulnerable in the future.” Some truths are hard to hear. This is one: attackers are already stealing encrypted data and planning to decrypt it later, when ...