量子威胁日益逼近

The day a quantum computer can break common encryption, or Q-Day, is coming, and we’re not ready, reports Karmela Padavic-Callaghan QUANTUM computers could cause a global security crisis that makes the once-feared millennium bug, or Y2K, look quaint. This infamous computer risk was averted through the persistent behind-the-scenes work of engineers across the world, but whether the new threat will be tackled similarly is an urgent yet unresolved question. The race is on to adopt post-quantum encryption algorithms before Q-Day The danger of Y2K was that the world’s computers couldn’t properly represent years later than 1999, and so everything from banking servers to airplane navigation systems would simultaneously malfunction at the turn of the millennium. …