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Is quantum computing a cybersecurity threat?

  • Written by Dorothy Denning, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
More powerful computers could break today's most advanced encryption.Production Perig/Shutterstock.com

Cybersecurity researchers and analysts arerightlyworried that a new type of computer, based on quantum physics rather than more standard electronics, could break most modern cryptography. The effect would be to render communications as insecure as...

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