Banks, governments and technology providers need to be prepared for quantum computer hackers capable of breaking most existing encryption systems by 2029, Google has warned.
The tech company said in a blogpost that quantum computers would pose a “significant threat to current cryptographic standards” before the end of the decade and urged other companies to follow its lead.
The company, owned by Alphabet, said: “The encryption currently used to keep your information confidential and secure could easily be broken by a large-scale quantum computer in coming years.”
As it stands, quantum computers – which can rapidly carry out complex tasks – are a nascent technology with great potential and significant obstacles to being widely usable.
Have they managed to factor a number bigger than 15 yet?
The encryption currently used to keep your information confidential and secure
Meanwhile data is leaked all the time, taken by doge or just given to palantir for processing.
Tell us something we didn’t know google, turns out there’s people out there that already devising solutions for this problem but your already know that
Translation: Google IR needs to start juicing quantum computing now that cracks are forming in the AI hype cycle.
Quantum is much cooler than the current LLM circlejerk.
