By Ritika Chakraborty, Second year, Computer ScienceFor years maths has been keeping our data safe, but with the latest quantum breakthroughs, this may no longer be the case. Have you ever opened a new WhatsApp chat and wondered what on earth “end-to-end encryption” means? Or what it means for a connection to be “secure”? Encryption is the practice of turning plaintext into an encoded message in order to keep it safe from eavesdroppers, and cryp…
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