“If we want our data to remain confidential, we have to act now”: Quantum computing can crack all our encryption, and that is everyone’s problem

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Quantum computing will soon be a reality, and that's bad news for all of the encryption algorithms the world relies on.What would take a modern supercomputer hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years to crack can be solved by a quantum computer in just days or hours.

What’s more, the day where that's possible, known as Q-Day, could realistically be in the next ten years.