{"id":21600,"date":"2016-02-04T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nsa-plans-to-act-now-to-ensure-quantum-computers-cant-break-encryption"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:02","slug":"nsa-plans-to-act-now-to-ensure-quantum-computers-cant-break-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/nsa-plans-to-act-now-to-ensure-quantum-computers-cant-break-encryption","title":{"rendered":"NSA Plans to \u2018Act Now\u2019 to Ensure Quantum Computers Can\u2019t Break Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nsa-plans-to-act-now-to-ensure-quantum-computers-cant-break-encryption.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another article just came out today providing additional content on the Quantum Computing threat and it did reference the article that I had published. Glad that folks are working on this.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The NSA is worried about quantum computers. It warns that it \u201cmust act now\u201d to ensure that encryption systems can\u2019t be broken wide open by the new super-fast hardware.<\/p>\n<p>In a document outlining common concerns about the effects that quantum computing may have on national security and encryption of sensitive data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iad.gov\/iad\/library\/ia-guidance\/ia-solutions-for-classified\/algorithm-guidance\/cnsa-suite-and-quantum-computing-faq.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">the NSA warns<\/a> that \u201cpublic-key algorithms\u2026 are all vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently large quantum computer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers can, theoretically, be so much faster because they take advantage of a quirk in quantum mechanics. While classical computers use bits in 0 or 1, quantum computers use \u201cqubits\u201d that can exist in 0, 1 or a superposition of the two. In turn, that allows it to work through possible solutions more quickly meaning they could crack encryption that normal computers can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/nsa-plans-to-act-now-to-ensure-quantum-computers-cant-b-1757038212\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another article just came out today providing additional content on the Quantum Computing threat and it did reference the article that I had published. Glad that folks are working on this. The NSA is worried about quantum computers. It warns that it \u201cmust act now\u201d to ensure that encryption systems can\u2019t be broken wide open [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,41,1412,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-privacy","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68607,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions\/68607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}