The default answer to this eternal problem is to increase the key length. For instance, the Wi-Fi security standards of yesteryear - Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and WPA - have all fallen as processors have grown ever faster. Of course, all the encryption methods are under constant assault. We don't think about it, we just use it and assume no one will read our work documents, snatch our credit-card numbers, or look over our virtual shoulders to read out email. And, these, and every credit-card transaction is protected at heart by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The Wi-Fi, through which our data flies, is defended by Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2). For example, thanks largely to Let's Encrypt, 91 percent of your US web visits are now secured by Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption.

It's become so commonplace we don't notice it. And, to do that securely, we rely on encryption. The coronavirus crisis is, of course, made that it even pervasive. All encryption, all the timeĬonsidering in today’s world we do everything - from buying our groceries to talking to our friends and family to doing our job - online. This, not to put too fine a point on it, will change everything. Today, we face the real possibility of quantum computers overturning the apple-cart of classical encryption and the promise of nigh-unto-unbreakable quantum encryption.

When famed Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynmann came up with the concept of quantum computers in 1982 in his speech and paper Simulating Physics with Computers, he probably wasn't thinking about the effects it would have on cryptography. Quantum encryption cracking is on its way, so it’s time to start getting ready for it.

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