Google Calls on Governments And Industry to Prepare Now For Quantum-Era Cybersecurity

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The call to action comes in a new Google blog post by Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, and Hartmut Neven, founder and lead of Google Quantum AI. The executives write that quantum computing as both a transformative scientific tool and a looming cybersecurity risk. According to the authors, the same machines expected to drive advances in drug discovery, materials science and energy could also undermine the public-key cryptography that protects financial transactions, private communications and classified data.

 

“To put that plainly: The encryption currently used to keep your information confidential and secure could easily be broken by a large-scale quantum computer in coming years,” they write.

 

Google Calls on Governments And Industry to Prepare Now For Quantum-Era Cybersecurity

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Google is urging governments and industry to accelerate adoption of post-quantum cryptography based on progress in quantum computing.

 

The quantum era is coming. Are we ready to secure it?

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Google shares an update on its work and suggestions for how policymakers can help everyone be more secure in the Quantum Era.

 

 

Edited February 9 by bonami2