Quantum Computing applications in Cryptography, Security and cyber attacks
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Update: 20 November 2021
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The US is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade
Patrick Howell O’Neill, MIT Technology Review, November 2021
At Quantum London we’ve been flagging the “Harvest Today, Decrypt Tomorrow” threat for a while, wanting to balance the clear and present risk with a desire *not* to make people’s first encounter with the power of quantum computing a worrisome one. See this brief article from earlier in 2021.
As such it’s great to see a short but clear articulation of where the US government is on this,
Faced with this “harvest now and decrypt later” strategy, officials are trying to develop and deploy new encryption algorithms to protect secrets against an emerging class of powerful machines. That includes the Department of Homeland Security, which says it is leading a long and difficult transition to what is known as post-quantum cryptography.
