{"id":27595,"date":"2016-07-08T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/google-tinkers-with-chrome-cryptosecurity-to-fight-quantum-hacks"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:23:45","slug":"google-tinkers-with-chrome-cryptosecurity-to-fight-quantum-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/google-tinkers-with-chrome-cryptosecurity-to-fight-quantum-hacks","title":{"rendered":"Google Tinkers With Chrome Cryptosecurity To Fight Quantum Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-tinkers-with-chrome-cryptosecurity-to-fight-quantum-hacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glad Google is doing this because next month could be a real test when China launches its Quantum Satellite.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today\u2019s encryption is an arms race as digital security experts try to hold off hackers\u2019 attempts to break open user data. But there\u2019s a new tech on the horizon that even the NSA recognizes as crucial to protect against: quantum computing, which is expected to dramatically speed up attempts to crack some commonly-used cryptographic schemes. To get ahead of the game, Google is testing new digital security setups on single-digit populations of Chrome users.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing is such a potential threat because it can do many more simultaneous calculations than current computers. Modern binary bits can only be in two states when electric current is run through them: 0 or 1. But the ambiguous nature of the quantum state means its elemental units (known as \u201cqubits\u201d) could be in either state at a time, so two could potentially be in four orientations at one time: 00, 01, 10 or 11. That ambiguity is exponential, so three qubits could be in eight at a time, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Security experts aren\u2019t just concerned that quantum computers\u2019 higher speed means faster rates of cryptography-cracking: They\u2019re worried that future hacking methods could come back to today\u2019s encrypted data and pry it open. But that\u2019s in the future: as Wired points out, crypto experts say you would need a quantum computer with hundreds of thousands of qubits, and IBM\u2019s only has five.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/news.php?id=8702\">http:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/news.php?id=8702<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad Google is doing this because next month could be a real test when China launches its Quantum Satellite. Today\u2019s encryption is an arms race as digital security experts try to hold off hackers\u2019 attempts to break open user data. But there\u2019s a new tech on the horizon that even the NSA recognizes as crucial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,1412,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-privacy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595","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=27595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50181,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27595\/revisions\/50181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}