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The Quantum Apocalypse: Your Encryption Will Fail And Even Your Bitcoin Will Be At Risk

This Is A Very Real Problem!

Thomas Cherickal
ILLUMINATION
8 min readJan 8, 2025

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Post-quantum cryptography is five years away.

No need for alarm, the experts say.

Start adopting post-quantum cryptographic techniques — but no rush.

WRONG!

This is the end of the online world as we know it!

The first country to build a quantum computer able to crack RSA and AES will rule the world!

This is another technological arms race!

Even greater — this is war!

Technology War!

Why The Online World Has Never Been More At Risk

There are thousands of secret, encrypted documents online.

Hackers have access to nearly every protected server in the world.

Most of these documents are secured with 2048-bit RSA or similar strength AES.

That gives us confidence, right?

That’s what the hackers want you to think!

There is an insidious strategy at work here.

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