{"id":27950,"date":"2016-07-18T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/can-we-find-a-quantum-resistant-algorithm-before-its-too-late"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:34:49","slug":"can-we-find-a-quantum-resistant-algorithm-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/can-we-find-a-quantum-resistant-algorithm-before-its-too-late","title":{"rendered":"Can we find a quantum-resistant algorithm before it\u2019s too late?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-we-find-a-quantum-resistant-algorithm-before-its-too-late.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The warning from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/article\/602306\/random-number-generator-powered-by-quantum-crackle-universe\/\">QuintessenceLabs\u2019 CTO<\/a> John Leisoboer is stark. \u201cWhen sufficiently powerful quantum computers become generally available,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s guaranteed to break all existing cryptographic systems that we know of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, he adds, \u201cEverything that we\u2019re doing today will be broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sentiment echoed by Google\u2019s Chrome security software engineer Matt Braithwaite who wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2016\/07\/experimenting-with-post-quantum.html\">a blog post earlier this month<\/a> that \u201ca hypothetical, future quantum computer would be able to retrospectively decrypt any internet communication that was recorded today\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/article\/603432\/can-we-find-quantum-resistant-algorithm-before-it-too-late\/\">http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/article\/603432\/can-we-find-q...-too-late\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warning from QuintessenceLabs\u2019 CTO John Leisoboer is stark. \u201cWhen sufficiently powerful quantum computers become generally available,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s guaranteed to break all existing cryptographic systems that we know of.\u201d In other words, he adds, \u201cEverything that we\u2019re doing today will be broken.\u201d It\u2019s a sentiment echoed by Google\u2019s Chrome security software engineer Matt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,418,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-internet","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950","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=27950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66889,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27950\/revisions\/66889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}