The White House is drastically shortening the deadline for government agencies and organizations to adopt new quantum-resistant encryption systems that will withstand attacks that use quantum computers, as the federal government seeks to protect decades’ worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and most individuals on Earth.

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The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm with the potential to dismantle major cryptography schemes.

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Quantum encryption, born from the quantum computing revolution, heralds a new era of unprecedented security. This technological advancement not only promises impenetrable encryption but also reshapes the landscape of data security. Quantum encryption, also ...

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the day someone builds a ...

For more than 40 years, we have been building the modern internet on foundations that were never designed for the world we live in today. When the architects of the early internet created its protocols, they were solving a very different problem.

Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates that it might be 20 times easier to crack such codes than ...

Breakthroughs in the quantum space are coming fast, and threats once dismissed as speculative now seem inevitable. For industries that rely on trust and long-lived devices, the transition to post-quantum cryptography isn’t optional — it’s survival.

Quantum computing has been projected to enable market-defining and life-changing capabilities since its inception more than three decades ago. From financial portfolio optimization and improved electric vehicle (EV) battery production to enhanced drug ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for ...