MIT Technology Review: Securing Today’s Data Against Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers

Professor Ari Juels recently contributed to an article for the MIT Technology Review on the importance of preparing and securing data for the computers of the future.

It makes sense to prepare our encryption for quantum computers now. Outdated encryption lingering in websites or software already causes security problems, even with the relatively slow progress made on encryption-beating attacks, he says. 

However, right now it’s not certain that the math used in Microsoft’s quantum-proof software will always be intractable for either quantum or conventional computers, says Juels. Mathematicians and cryptographers haven’t studied them as intensely as they have RSA or the encryption used today. “We’ve no solid assurance,” he says.

Read the full article on MIT Technology Review.