Almost every encrypted secret being protected today — banking records, classified government cables — is expected to become readable within the next decade once quantum computers arrive, and intelligence agencies are already stockpiling that data, in a strategy called "harvest now, decrypt later"
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The threat posed by post-quantum technology is no longer theory, but is already shaping the risk landscape. While quantum computing promises groundbreaking progress, it will also undermine the cryptographic foundations that protect our digital economy. What has changed is the schedule. The question is no longer whether quantum computers will crack the current encryption, but when that will be the case. Attackers are already taking advantage of t…
Almost every encrypted secret being protected today — banking records, classified government cables — is expected to become readable within the next decade once quantum computers arrive, and intelligence agencies are already stockpiling that data, in a strategy called "harvest now, decrypt later"
Somewhere in a windowless data centre, in a country that may or may not be your own, a server is quietly storing a copy of every encrypted email you have ever sent, every banking transaction you have ever made, every encrypted message you have ever exchanged with a doctor or a lawyer or a lover — and is waiting, patiently, for the technology to arrive that will eventually let someone read all of it. The technology is quantum computing. The waiti…
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