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- A Canadian Phycisist has estimated that encrypted information sent over the internet today will be crackable about 15 years from now.
According to an article in Science News, Canadian Phycisist Michele Mosca has estimated that encrypted information sent over the internet today will be crackable in about 15 years from now.
So, if you send valuable information today using the normal encryption methods used today, and someone has the foresight to save your encrypted dialog, that someone will likely have the tools available in 15 tears to read your information.
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So, if you send valuable information today using the normal encryption methods used today, and someone has the foresight to save your encrypted dialog, that someone will likely have the tools available in 15 tears to read your information.
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Mosca estimates that in the next 15 years, there’s about a 50 percent chance of a quantum computer powerful enough to break standard public-key encryption. That may seem like a long time, but experts estimate that previous major cryptography overhauls have taken around 15 years. “This is not a Tuesday patch,” Mosca says.
The threat is even more pressing because the data we send today could be vulnerable to quantum computers that don’t exist yet. Hackers could harvest encrypted information now, and later decode it once a powerful quantum computer becomes available, Mosca says. “It’s just bad news if we don’t get ahead of this.”