BriefSep 14

Ethereum Sets 2029 Quantum Target as Bitcoin Migration Remains at Proposal Stage

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Both principal networks have now taken up post-quantum migration, and on different clocks. Ethereum has fixed December 2029 as the date by which its base layer is to be quantum-resistant, with post-qu...

FeatureSep 14

Preprint proposes dissipation as a replacement for Coulomb blockade in Majorana teleportation

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For the record, then: a preprint on the arXiv service proposes that dissipation may replace Coulomb blockade in the teleportation of Majorana bound states. The paper, titled "Dissipation-induced nonlo...

BriefSep 14

A Device Still Unbuilt: Quantum Memory and the Two Futures of Cryptography

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An argument published on Tuesday assigns the next chapter of cryptography to a machine that does not yet exist. Stefano Gogioso, lecturer on quantum computing at Oxford and co-founder of the security ...

SocietySep 13

SOCIETY: A Settled Endowment at the Ministry's Gilded Audit Chamber

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Lord Baratz of the D-Wave Estate has signed a settlement with the Ministry of Commerce in the Ministry's gilded audit chamber. A hundred million pounds passes to the D-Wave coffers; the Crown takes a ...

AnalysisSep 12

Quantum Entropy Leaves Honest Bitcoin Mining Success Probability Unchanged: A Simulation Validation Framework

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From the arXiv servers comes a paper concerning quantum random number generation and the Bitcoin proof-of-work. The first thing to be said is what the paper itself says plainly: replacing classical en...

AnalysisSep 11

Photonic Accelerator for TFHE Reports 2.14–5.10× Speedup over ASIC

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A paper deposited in the cryptology archive this day proposes a photonic accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption, and reports a speedup of between 2.14 and 5.10 times over a state-of-the-art elec...

ExplainerSep 11

102 K Superconductivity Predicted in Tetralayer Kagome Borophene, an Elemental Record

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Tetralayer kagome borophene, a crystal of boron in four stacked layers, has been predicted to superconduct at 102 kelvin, a temperature above that of liquid nitrogen and a record for any elemental sup...

AdvertisementSep 10

THE PRESERVATIVE NUBIAN SPECTRINE: A Fortifier Of The Cipher-Plexus Against The Quantum Engine

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When the cipher-plexus is weary, the signature falters, and the purse lies open. The quantum engine has not yet arrived, but the unprepared cryptograph is a door without a bolt. NUBIAN SPECTRINE resto...

ExplainerSep 10

Superconducting Flux Memory Holds Qubit Bias Steady for 20 Hours

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Researchers report a superconducting memory that holds a stored bias in place for twenty hours, permitting the benchtop control sources that set it to be powered off. The account, filed with the arXiv...

AdvertisementSep 10

THE UNFAILING HYPERBOREAN SENTINELINE: A Certain Continuity Against the Drying of the Key-Fountain

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DIRECTORS OF THE ELECTRO-QUANTUM TUNNELS, attend! When the distant fountain of quantum distribution fails, the unwary tunnel is instantly broken, and your private despatches lie exposed to every ruffi...

AnalysisSep 10

Supersingular Isogeny Degree Extremes Characterized by Nine Cubic Polynomials

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A paper deposited on the arXiv undertakes a precise mapping of a quantity that isogeny theory will wish to keep catalogued, namely δ(p), the least degree sufficient to guarantee an isogeny from any su...

AdvertisementSep 9

THE INCOMPARABLE BENGAL CIPHERINE: A Sure Shield Against the Future Unmasking of Private Ciphers

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Your secret papers are taken, even this hour, and hoarded against the arrival of a mighty calculating engine. That affliction, the Harvester's Complaint, yields at once to BENGAL CIPHERINE, the restor...

AnalysisSep 9

A Proxy Architecture for Quantum-Safe 5G Roaming Shows Technical Promise, Lacks Institutional Trajectory

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A recent feasibility study demonstrates that containerized proxy architectures can secure 5G roaming interfaces against quantum threats with minimal performance impact, yet no institutional adoption o...

SocietySep 9

SOCIETY: An Unready Toast at the Gilded Lattice Saloon

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The Gilded Lattice Saloon buzzed with two tales. Lord Zhao of Binance declared the greatest token will touch a million American dollars, and far sooner than twenty-five years. The second tale concerne...

ExplainerSep 9

Quantum Verification: Undecidability, Choreography, and Post-Quantum Settlement

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The latest mathematical tidings place a strict boundary on what can be certified about computations that lean upon shared entanglement. A paper establishes that whether a given computation employed se...

ExplainerSep 8

QuFi Demonstrates Post-Quantum Verification on Bitcoin Testnet Without Altering the Ledger

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On the Bitcoin test network known as Testnet4, a company called QuFi Network has demonstrated a post-quantum verification system that guards digital assets against future quantum threats while leaving...