US EditionGoogle Sets 2029 Deadline for Quantum-Safe Encryption
- On Wednesday, Google moved its Q-Day preparation deadline to 2029, warning that quantum computers could soon break current cryptographic standards securing sensitive global data.
- Research indicates 1 million noisy qubits could factor RSA integers in under a week, making the threat significantly more feasible than previous estimates requiring much higher qubit counts.
- The company urges organizations to transition to post-quantum cryptography to augment existing security, as RSA and elliptic curves will eventually become vulnerable to quantum threats.
- Heather Adkins, Google's VP of security engineering, and Sophie Schmieg, senior cryptography engineer, wrote that the company has a "responsibility to lead by example and share an ambitious timeline."
- While Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum computers remain error-prone, experts note that capabilities once thought decades away may arrive much sooner than previously anticipated.
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