Quantum computers could break today’s encryption. Washington needs to prepare now.
As advances lower the barrier to breaking current encryption, Washington must move with equal urgency on post-quantum defenses.
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The country is consumed right now with debating artificial intelligence and whether increasingly powerful AI systems could escape human control. Those are valid concerns, but lawmakers are overlooking another technological threat: quantum computing. Unlike AI safety debates, this risk could render today’s encryption obsolete – compromising everything from emails to financial transactions to government communications and military systems.
Quantum computers harness unusual properties of quantum physics to solve certain problems far faster than conventional computers. That potential offers major…
