Harvesting Our Encrypted Data: The Quantum Cryptography Conundrum

…The United States is developing new algorithms to protect against the adversary’s future—powerful quantum computing that will be able to break into currently encrypted systems and data…

…The problem is that these current security mechanisms will not be effective in protecting data from quantum-based attacks, whenever they are operational, whether that is in five, 10 or 15 years…

…Adversaries do ‘store now & decrypt later’ by harvesting encrypted data & hoping that in the future that they will be able to see classified info…

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