Countdown to Q Day [Influence - quantum cryptography]
H. Lamb · Engineering & Technology · 2024
Time is running out for our encryption - although no one knows quite when that will be. This threat is posed by quantum computers, which are ideally suited to cracking classical encryption schemes like RSA through sheer brute force. Any data being sent place to place is vulnerable - from military secrets to the financial and medical records of private citizens. There are, broadly speaking, two complementary defences to the quantum threat - distinct in terms of expense, complexity and security. The more accessible is quantum-proof cryptography, which develops new generations of cryptographic algorithms more resilient to quantum computers. The other is quantum key distribution.