Security in the age of quantum computing

Quantum computing will render current online security tools obsolete; luckily, there are efforts underway to keep our data safe and secure.

“The main way we secure the internet today, and most of our information and communication technologies, is using a mathematical tool that will be broken once we have large scale quantum computers,” says Michele Mosca, Deputy Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.

“So this is no longer just a hypothetical problem, it’s a medium-term threat. And the clock is ticking on fixing this catastrophe; preventing this catastrophe.”