The NSA is apparently collecting and storing thirty petabytes of encrypted data per day and that’s likely to include every iMessage sent worldwide. When quantum computers arrive, they will be able to decrypt that data and some estimates put that future uncomfortably close. Real breakthroughs in quantum computing have been made the last year or two.
It’s good to see something is finally being done about that threat. I wouldn’t count on the NSA being the only people with the data either - it’s a goldmine and surely other governments are trying to gain access.
Cool. They can read my ten year old iMessages all they want.
Well good for you. Send them to me as well, I want to read your ten year old iMessages! No? Why not?
lol what?
Quantum or tell me that you fall in the pseudoscientific trap.
This is about them adding post-quantum encryption, which means encryption that could survive an attack using quantum computers.
This is computer science and mathematics, not pseudoscientific crap.
My sentence wasn’t that litteral. It’s pseudoscientific crap marketing. “Quantum security” isn’t “survive attacks using quantum computers”. It’s completely pedantic.
The issue with this usage is that the meaning of the words disappears.
“Quantum security” is a fairly widely accepted term in the industry and it has meaning.
Other terms with the same or similar meaning are quantum cryptography or post-quantum security.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/quantum-security-technologies
https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/07/17/quantum-security/
https://www.nomios.com/resources/what-is-quantum-security/
https://www.weforum.org/global_future_councils/gfc-on-cybersecurity/projects/quantum-security/
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/quantum-security-and-cryptography-in-hashicorp-vault
https://blog.1password.com/passkeys-quantum-computers-encryption/
It’s my point. I never ever wrote the term doesn’t exist nor the term isn’t valid.
