The future of internet security faces a major challenge: quantum computers could eventually break even the strongest encryption used today, making sensitive data vulnerable. To counter this threat, researchers worldwide are working on quantum networks — systems that leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to enable ultra-secure communication.No, quantum computers do not threaten the strongest encryption used today. They might threaten RSA, in about 50 years. Even then, I doubt it.When fully developed and globally interconnected, these networks will form the quantum internet, providing encryption that cannot be intercepted or decoded.
Regardless, no one is going to make secure networks out of this quantum encryption. They suffer a number of defects. They are slow and expensive. They cannot use routers. They are subject to hardware attacks. They cannot be authenticated. They depend on a probability of detecting an attack. They have to shut down if there is an attack.
Quantum computers are much like global warming.
ReplyDelete1.)They are both insanely expensive contrived solutions to problems we don't actually have.
2.) they both shower wealth on small priest classes that don't have to show or produce anything for all the money they spend
3.) they both use the same high pressure con: Act now act now! This deal will soon be gone, you must act now! Or vague poorly defined 'bad' things will happen...with no solid data to be found anywhere, just expert testimonials riddled with hyperbolic claims that vanish like a fart in the wind when anyone tries to follow up on their claims.
It's basically a high pressure used car salesman pitch that leverages fear and drums up irrational funding.
The danger here is that there is a headlong rush to move AWAY from well proven secure cryptographic ciphers and to this unstable, unproven, insecure, bug riddled filth of "post quantum cryptography". It is an insidious scam of the highest order, attempting to compromise communications security by duping people into switching to these new and most certainly compromised ciphers.
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