Every time you log into a website, make an online payment, or send a message, cryptography is working behind the scenes to keep your information secure. Presently, most of the internet depends on systems like ECC and RSA. These systems leverage mathematical problems that quantum computers could solve much faster. Quantum computing is still developing, but when it becomes very powerful, it can break most of today’s encryption systems. This would…
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