Encryption Crisis Looms as Q-Day Moves to 2029
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Experts stress the growing urgency for technology companies to migrate to post-quantum cryptography in order to counter the threat of the quantum computer, or "Q-Day". Recent research suggests that current security systems, including digital signatures, could be vulnerable much sooner than expected. In response, giants like Google and Cloudflare have advanced their readiness goals to 2029, thus aheading other actors like Micr...
Encryption crisis looms as Q-Day moves to 2029
The cybersecurity industry has long treated Q-Day – the point at which quantum computing shatters current encryption standards – as a distant, theoretical problem. However, this complacent timeline has been rather aggressively upended. As highlighted by Richard Ford, chief technology officer of Integrity360 during the Security First conference in Cape Town, the threat has become a present-day reality that demands a fundamental rethink of cyber r…
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