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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Building Quantum-Proof Encryption

Its been suggested that current encryption techniques will be cracked by quantum methods.  And perhaps cybercurrency/blockchain tech, also based on current encryption methods.   So as suggested, new methods are explore to ensure secrecy as needed.     Still lots of uncertainty here, what are the borders of the capabilities suggested here?

Race Is on to Build Quantum-Proof Encryption
in Financial Times  By Adam Green

Experts say quantum computing could upend data security encryption systems, which rely on factoring large prime numbers—a task easily scalable with the extra power provided by quantum computers. Government agencies such as the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S., as well as Government Communications Headquarters in the U.K., are working to develop post-quantum cybersecurity. Said Christophe Petit of the University of Birmingham School of Computer Science in the U.K., “The day a big quantum computer is built, all the cryptography we are using today is dead."...

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