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Beyond encryption: Why quantum computing might be more of a science boom than a cybersecurity bust
While quantum computers will be able to break traditional encryption, we’re still a long way from “No More Secrets” decryption.
While it’s true that quantum computers will be able to break traditional encryption more quickly and easily, we’re still a long way from the “No More Secrets” decryption box imagined in the 1992 movie Sneakers. But the fear was real — and it led to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issuing its famous “7-pass wipe” method of data erasure to eliminate any forensic evidence that an electric microscope could theoretically detect. Would you go on a wild goose chase through millions of encrypted communications, or would you devote that critical time, energy and compute to cure cancer, eradicate dementia or create advanced new materials?
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