AI Helped Spark a Quantum Breakthrough. The World 'Is Not Prepared'

AI Helped Spark a Quantum Breakthrough. The World 'Is Not Prepared'

—Getty ImagesLast week, cybersecurity researchers woke up to bad news. Research in new papers published by Google and a quantum computing startup, Oratomic, suggests that quantum computers capable of breaking the encryption protocols that secure the internet may arrive sooner than expected. “It's a real shock,” Bas Westerbaan, a cybersecurity researcher at Cloudflare, which secures a significant fraction of the internet, told TIME. “We’ll need t…

Cloudflare’s 2029 quantum sprint raises Bitcoin alarm bells

Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest CDN and internet edge networks, has substantially accelerated its deadline to migrate to post-quantum cryptography amid fears that hardware breakthroughs could render current encryption obsolete within three years. The quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin community rang alarm bells after the giant move. Cloudflare announced its new post-quantum deadline, joining Google in an aggressive security sprint targeting 2029.…

Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029

Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum security plans and now aims to make its entire platform fully post-quantum secure by 2029. "The updated timeline follows new developments in quantum computing research that suggest current cryptographic standards could be broken sooner than previously expe...

Cloudflare aims for post-quantum security by 2029

Cloudflare has set out its post-quantum roadmap, aiming to be fully post-quantum (PQ) secure including, crucially, post-quantum authentication by 2029. This comes as Google last month accelerated its post-quantum migration timeline, also to 2029. In addition Google has placed a priority on quantum-secure authentication over mitigating harvest-now/decrypt-later attacks. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) don’t exist yet, but man…