Security Sidebar: Did Quantum Computing Kill Encryption?

Google recently published results of its newest quantum computing capability with a chip called "Sycamore" and the results are pretty impressive. Classic computer operations rely on a binary 1 or 0 t...

Published Nov 06, 2019

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Nov 12, 2019

Great article! NIST is actually running a competition right now for the next major public cryptography algorithm. The contest is for a "Post Quantum Cryptography" algorithm. They are currently up to round 2!

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Post-Quantum-Cryptography-Standardization

Encryption as a practice won't be killed, but it looks like at least some algorithms definitely will!