Google: Today’s Encryption May Not Survive Tomorrow’s Attacks
It is ‘deja vu’ all over again as Google prepares for a future that seems inevitable. Like the millennium bug of the late 90s, Practical Quantum Computing looks like the next big turn in this era of internet security and encryption. Preparing for Advanced Quantum attacks. The prevailing concern is that in the near future, personal information may not be so secure as hackers could employ higher level computing procedures, otherwise known as Advanced Quantum attacks to crack current encryption techniques. Considering the potential weakness of encryption which could make it vulnerable in the....
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