🚀 Quantum Computing and the Future of Cryptography
Quantum computers utilize "qubits" based on superposition and entanglement, allowing them to solve complex mathematical problems exponentially faster than classical bits. This Quantum Advantage is both a technological leap and an existential threat to the encryption standards that protect our digital world today.
🔐 The Risk: Why Our Keys are Vulnerable
Algorithms like RSA and ECC rely on the extreme difficulty of prime factorization for classical hardware. However, Shor's Algorithm theoretically proves that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could break these systems in minutes.
⚠️ Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL)
Attackers are currently collecting encrypted sensitive data to store until quantum hardware matures. This makes quantum security a today problem for long-term data privacy.