{"id":153898,"date":"2022-12-30T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/experts-warn-of-quantum-apocalypse"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:28:23","slug":"experts-warn-of-quantum-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/experts-warn-of-quantum-apocalypse","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn of \u201cQuantum Apocalypse\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experts-warn-of-quantum-apocalypse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, a potentially dangerous fate for humanity that they\u2019re evocatively dubbing the \u201cquantum apocalypse,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-60144498\" class=\"\"><em>BBC<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cracking today\u2019s toughest encryption would take virtually forever today \u2014 but with the advent of quantum computers, they\u2019re warning, the process could be cut down to mere seconds.<\/p>\n<p>And that kind of number-crunching power could have disastrous consequences if it were to land in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are warning that quantum computers could eventually overpower conventional encryption methods, a potentially dangerous fate for humanity that they\u2019re evocatively dubbing the \u201cquantum apocalypse,\u201d the BBC reports. Cracking today\u2019s toughest encryption would take virtually forever today \u2014 but with the advent of quantum computers, they\u2019re warning, the process could be cut down to mere [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}