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Performance Overhead: Encryption processes can slow down devices, especially with resource-intensive algorithms. Data Recovery Issues: Loss of encryption keys can make data permanently inaccessible.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology says the advent of massively parallel computing has rendered the Data Encryption Standard inadequate to protect federal government information.

Quantum computers could soon break today's strongest encryption, putting sensitive data at risk. Let's dive deep into what this all means for telecommunications, security, AI, and our future.

The new algorithm, called HQC, will be a backup for the main algorithm NIST announced last year for general encryption in a future quantum age.

In a world facing ongoing cyber threats, encryption is one of the most effective yet underutilized tools to mitigate and prevent data breaches.

HQC is a second line of defence for general encryption to safeguard internet traffic and stored data. NIST has been working for more than eight years on encryption algorithms that even a quantum ...

Paul Smith-Goodson explores the end-to-end features and capabilities of IBM Quantum Safe Technology and examines its usefulness in identifying non-quantum-safe encryption and replacing them with ...