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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Bruno Ferreira

Go maintainer joins collective klaxon about encryption-breaking quantum computers — developer urges immediate switch to post-quantum methods to prevent worldwide disaster

Quantum computers.

With all the talk about AI slurping computing and energy resources — plus all the interesting times lived in the Middle East and Ukraine — there's a serious world issue that's flying under the radar. Quantum computers might be breaking most — or all — current cryptography in an estimated three years, and not nearly enough is being done. Filippo Valsorda, the current maintainer of the cryptography library in the Go language and former lead of the Go Security team at Google, is adding his voice to the choir of alerts.

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