August 2, 2022
Every now and again someone releases a report about the state of quantum computing. It's not all that esoteric to talk about quantum computing because it's already got the potential to shake up some things we already take as structurally untouchable. Most encryption systems can actually be cracked with conventional computing, except for the high-standard SHA-256 protocol, but few mention that quantum computers can make short work of any conventionally-computed encryption system. Basically the only encryption system that couldn't be cracked by a quantum computer, including even anything government/military level encrypted, would be a message encrypted by a protocol based on quantum computing. Everything encrypted by a conventional computer can now be cracked by a quantum computing system.
Well, the latest news is the research teams are starting to plan for market use cases for quantum computing - saying they'd like to know when quantum computing should pick up where conventional computing leaves off. This means we'll soon enough see quantum computing on the market, and encryption protocols up and down the line, even the highest SHA-256 standard are vulnerable to being uncoded by simple brute-force attack. This means that the field of information secrecy is again heavily asymmetrical, which will to a certain extent make data-based journalism more volatile, and so on. If you were relying on that, it might not hold, in the face of this.
Just thought you might want to know.
Edit: October 22, 2023 — Biden signs quantum computing cybersecurity bill into law | FedScoop
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