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The US is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade | MIT Technology Review

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The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.

The US is worried that hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content While they wrestle with the immediate danger posed by hackers today, US government officials are preparing for another, longer-term threat: attackers who are collecting sensitive, encrypted data now in the hope that they’ll be able to unlock it at some point in the future. The threat comes from quantum computers, which work very differently from the classical computers we use today. Instead of the traditional bits made of 1 s and 0 s, they use quantum bit

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