Protecting your data, now, is the best course of action to avoid today’s data being decrypted by tomorrow’s quantum computers. We call this eventuality, “Q-Day”. The day when a quantum computer of sufficient capability can break encryption.
From seatbelts to GDPR, any time new standards are introduced, their adoption naturally comes with a certain amount of industry upheaval—and that’s exactly what we’re now seeing with post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Quantum computing is a new and emerging technology that threatens to break the encryption algorithms used in cybersecurity. Currently, the world’s most advanced computers are not capable of deciphering the mathematical algorithms used to protect sensitive data and communications. It could take thousands or even millions of years before the current technology breaks encrypted data.
Someday — maybe in five, 10 or 20 years — mega-powerful computing systems that harness the very weird properties of quantum mechanics could achieve the unthinkable, and obliterate the current methods of encryption that the internet depends on for security.
Organizations should be communicating to their cybersecurity vendors about this issue, “asking them what their quantum-safe roadmap looks like”…
Will your quantum technology IP be left vulnerable to hacked algorithms or to the looming arrival of powerful quantum computers?
Ever since Peter Shor showed how a quantum computer could factorize large numbers with exponential speedup, it has been known that quantum computers could become a threat to most cryptographic algorithms currently in use.
By Thomas Poeppelmann and Martin Schlaeffer
Due to their special features, quantum computers have the disruptive potential to replace existing conventional computers in many applications. They could, for example, calculate simulations of complex molecules for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, perform complicated optimizations for the automotive and aviation industry, or create new findings from the analysis of complex financial data. At the same time, quantum computers also raise a lot of security concerns, and while today they don’t have real world applications, their capabilities are expected to grow significantly over the next 10 years. According to Michele Mosca, there is only a 14% chance that RSA2048 will be broken by 2026, but that grows to 50% by 2031. The security community has taken notice and is already preparing for quantum attacks.
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Cryptography that secures data in motion is the foundation of identification, authentication, confidentiality, and verification. To secure enterprises today, keep them secure tomorrow, and comply with increasingly stringent regulations and audits, the cryptography used by organizations needs to be visible, managed, and upgraded without business disruption.
