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Cybersecurity in the Age of Quantum Computing: A Cryptographer’s Call to Action
Computing power has advanced far beyond the invention of the transistor. Today’s digital infrastructures rely on public-key cryptography to safeguard commerce, state secrets and personal privacy. But a new paradigm is within our view. Quantum computers utilize superposition and entanglement to perform…
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5 Ways Quantum Computing Will Change the World
In the days after I resigned from my position as the senior manager of scientific outreach at the Institute for Quantum Computing to join ISARA Corporation, one esteemed colleague after another would offer me a farewell handshake and say, half jokingly, “So, you’ve finally decided to join the dark side?”…
Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum-Safe Cryptography: two (complementary) approaches to becoming quantum-ready
Every advancement in quantum computing brings us closer to the positive and negative disruptions this revolutionary technology promises. Though a large-scale quantum computer is not here yet, its future arrival already puts many aspects of information security at risk today because of “harvest-and-decrypt”…