The Quantum Threat to the Internet
The Quantum Threat to the Internet
Somebody may be collecting encrypted secrets today because they believe a future quantum computer will unlock them. This documentary explains qubits, Shor's algorithm, quantum error correction, “harvest now, decrypt later,” the new post-quantum standards and the race to replace vulnerable cryptography by 2035.
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Chapters
- A secret stolen before it can be read
- How today’s encryption works
- The quantum idea
- Shor changes the stakes
- Why qubits are difficult
- What could actually break
- Harvest now, decrypt later
- The search for new locks
- The migration begins
- Migration can fail too
- What quantum computers may be for
- Can the internet change its locks?