Quantum technology and its impact on security in mobile networks
John Mattsson, Ben Smeets, Erik Thormarker · Ericsson Technology Review · 2021
Over the last 50 years, cryptography has evolved from its military and diplomatic origins to become a rich and widely-used tool to create complex cryptographic solutions for a multitude of applications. In the ICT industry, for example, an efficient combination of symmetric and public-key (asymmetric) cryptography is critical to the security of virtually every product, service and interface in use today.