Q-Day: The problem with legacy public key encryption

In the power circles where policy and technology meet, there always seems to be someone with his or her “hair on fire” about some issue or another, and it can be difficult to differentiate between a serious matter, hype and political theater. When it comes to the looming threat to existing cryptography methods, however, the consensus is clear: Quantum computers will make it possible to crack all current public key encryption. This means that unless … More

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