Do you love a great acronym?
"Q-Day is
the point at which large quantum computers will be able to break encryption algorithms using multi-state qubits (quantum bits) to perform Shor's algorithm."
1994 Mr Shaw made what is still impossible as no fully functional Quantum Computer exists (yet!) It is " exponentially faster than the most efficient known classical factoring algorithm"
All current computer security is obsolete as soon as that occurs! Hack Nuclear codes, every bank account, every computer and web server in a second.
Q day sounds a bit scary IF it catches people, business and Governments with our pants down.
Oddly we know it has caught all with our private parts hidden but ready to be fully exposed! All our currently encrypted data from all listed places can and is being mirrored to back up servers known and unknown!
Once Q-day comes all existing secrets can be then read from those mirrored drives nefarious and others have already!
"Michael McLaughlin, a cybersecurity expert who has
been interviewed several times for this blog on
various topics. Michael was highlighting an excellent article by Chuck Brooks in
Forbes on the impact that Q-Day — the day that quantum computers will have the power to “break the Internet” — will have on the global cybersecurity industry.
Michael’s post began this way: “Think of China’s spy balloon as a giant vacuum sucking up all communications in its path. Encryption protects us, right? Wrong. The Chinese government is collecting as much data as possible — both encrypted and unencrypted — because of the coming era of quantum computing.”"
On the bright side quantum computing will also allow medical and other science to proceed at light speed compared to today's speeds

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