The Greatest Threat to the Internet or an Amazing Opportunity? Quantum Computers
I am proud to be a Fellow of the BCS (FBCS) and honoured to be invited to give a talk hosted by the BCS Information Security Specialist Group (ISSG) on 31 January 2024 (6:30–8pm):
It can be attended on the campus where John Napier invented logarithms (Merchiston) or on-line. Like it or not, Moore’s Law is likely to be coming to an end, and where we need to start to move away from our silicon approaches, and start thinking in quantum spaces. This, though, will bring new computing models, and it is our public key encryption methods that are likely to fall with the advent of quantum computers. As we don’t know when quantum computers will arrive at the scale that can break our existing public key methods, we need to start the migration process soon (if not, now!).
But, could quantum computers bring new models of processing in cybersecurity? Well, yes, and we (myself and Madjid Tehrani ) will outline some of these in the talk.
