{"id":235128,"date":"2026-04-13T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-computers-are-coming-to-break-our-codes-faster-than-anyone-expected"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:48:23","slug":"quantum-computers-are-coming-to-break-our-codes-faster-than-anyone-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-computers-are-coming-to-break-our-codes-faster-than-anyone-expected","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computers are coming to break our codes faster than anyone expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-computers-are-coming-to-break-our-codes-faster-than-anyone-expected.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world\u2019s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years, could not crack it.<\/p>\n<p>But last month, Google and others released results suggesting a new kind of computer\u2014a quantum computer\u2014might be able to open the vault with significantly less resources than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are coming on two fronts. On one, tech giants such as IBM and Google are racing to build ever-larger quantum computers: IBM <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2025-11-12-ibm-delivers-new-quantum-processors,-software,-and-algorithm-breakthroughs-on-path-to-advantage-and-fault-tolerance\" target=\"_blank\">hopes to achieve<\/a> a genuine advantage over classical computers in some special cases this year, and an even more powerful \u201cfault-tolerant\u201d system by 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world\u2019s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years, could not crack it. But last month, Google and others released results suggesting a new kind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235128","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}