From CoinTelegraph, January 22:
We could have machines capable of breaking RSA encryption by 2030, but quantum sensing and other beneficial applications should arrive first.
Tech experts across government, academia, and the private sector are methodically working to ensure the world’s data is safe from the impending threat of quantum decryption. While this may represent the greatest technological threat this side of AI-wrought extinction, there may be some silver linings along the way.
At some point, possibly in the near future, researchers believe a quantum computing system capable of breaking RSA encryption — the standard that protects banks, military bases, and countless other institutions from hackers and spies — will emerge.
Before that happens, however, several other quantum technology solutions will likely need to come into focus. Chief among them, may very well be quantum sensing.
Quantum safe encryption
Jack Hidary, the CEO of SandboxAQ, a Google sibling company focused on quantum technologies, is certain we’ll see “scaled, fault-tolerant quantum computers” by the end of the decade.In a talk entitled “Quantum’s Black Swan,” given at the World Economic Forum, the CEO discussed the threat of quantum decryption as well as some of the potential breakthroughs we could see ahead of it.
“People got surprised by Gen-AI, and what's going to happen here is the same thing. At some point, people are going to say, ‘Wow, what a surprise, what a shock, that our cryptography is broken!’”Hidary predicts that ‘certainly by 2029-30, we're going to see scaled, fault-tolerant quantum computers,” which could be capable of breaking encryption.”
He’s not the only one making predictions that would have seemed bold just a few years ago....
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Also at CoinTelegraph: WEF identifies AI and quantum computing as emerging global threats
