From the secure transmission of sensitive genomic data, to data transfers between critical industrial infrastructure, to the day-to-day exchange of personally-identifiable data in financial and healthcare sectors — digital communications is the lifeblood of critical human enterprise.
Despite the use of advanced cryptographic methods to ensure safe data exchange, the world is at the cusp of an age in which quantum computers that are magnitudes faster than today’s supercomputers will be able to crack the best encryption schemes within practicable timeframes.
