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When Encryption Meets Quantum
(May 14, 2026)
Quantum processors can evaluate many possible solutions in parallel rather than sequentially. This capability has profound implications for cryptography. Today’s most widely deployed encryption schemes, RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), can be broken and rendered obsolete by a quantum computer.
Everything from industrial IoT sensors and automotive control systems to cloud infrastructure and secure boot mechanisms relies on RSA or ECC for encryption today. When quantum computers reach the scale required to break these algorithms, that entire trust architecture collapses simultaneously.
Compounding the urgency is an attack vector already in use: Harvest now, decrypt later.
Jeffrey Epstein Recruited NSA Codebreakers for Genome “Manhattan Project”
(February 10, 2026)
For the next decade, Epstein continued to recruit engineers from U.S. national security entities, including DARPA, to his genome hacking project. He asked Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House attorney who had handled the legal fallout from the Edward Snowden leaks, to help him source cryptographers from the National Security Agency. “Can you find a guy from nsa that can think about signal intelligence applied to DNA,” Epstein wrote . “I want to intercept communication between living cells in organisms.”
In late 2012, he had sent the same request to Boris Nikolic, Bill Gates’ top aide: “do you have any contacts at nsa so that we can use de encypriton (sic) in biological systems?” “Yes,” Nikolic replied, “There are no many places where I do not have someone ;)”
Let‘s Encrypt 4096 bit
(March 9, 2020)
Look at setting in panel.ini
rsa-key-size = 4096
here Managing Let’s Encrypt Settings
I hope it will help.
CIQ’s NSS Module 1st to Achieve CAVP Certification for Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms
(February 4, 2026)
The National Security Agency’s CNSA 2.0 sets a compressed timeline for National Security Systems to adopt quantum–resistant cryptography, with key transition milestones beginning in 2027 and a full migration targeted by 2035. However, the “harvest now, decrypt later” threat makes immediate preparation critical. Adversaries can collect encrypted data today and decrypt it once quantum computers become capable.
Quantum Computing Forces Shift to Post-Quantum Security
(February 3, 2026)
This technical vulnerability facilitates „harvest now, decrypt later“ attacks. In these scenarios, malicious actors capture encrypted communications in the present to decrypt them once quantum hardware achieves the necessary stability and processing power.
The cybersecurity landscape faces a critical convergence between artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Nikesh Arora, CEO, Palo Alto Networks, says during the Quantum-Safe Summit that quantum technology is no longer a theoretical scientific project but an operational reality with documented success in stable computing tasks. The integration of these capabilities accelerates the decryption of traditional security protocols, which compromises sensitive government and industrial information.
China Launches Its Own Quantum-Resistant Encryption Standards, Bypassing US Efforts
(February 18, 2025)
That, in itself might not be seen as an unusual initiative, but experts see China’s decision to pursue an independent cryptographic standard as a strategic move. As reported by New Scientist, China may be avoiding US-led encryption initiatives due to concerns over potential “back doors” that could allow US intelligence agencies to access encrypted communications. There is also speculation that China may seek to integrate its own covert access points into its encryption protocols.
Microsoft’s Quantum Chip Breakthrough Accelerates Threat to Encryption Protocols
(February 21, 2025)
However, the announcement has also underscored the urgency of organizations transitioning to post-quantum cryptography. This is because quantum computers of this scale will be able to rapidly solve mathematical equations that make up current encryption protocols, such as RSA and AES.
Such a scenario will leave data, connections and components used by all organizations exposed.
Malicious actors are also believed to be already stockpiling encrypted data in anticipation of quantum technology to mature, in what are known as ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ attacks.
‘All systems need to be hardened’: Officials, industry sound the alarm on quantum threat to encryption
(September 29, 2023)
Such an all-conquering computer doesn’t actually exist yet. But there lies the paradox of what’s called quantum-resistant or “post-quantum” encryption: You don’t need a quantum computer to start laying the foundations for a quantum-powered hack — or, fortunately, to start building a defense.
The threat is a tactic called “collect now, decrypt later.” Well-heeled foreign intelligence agencies (and the American NSA) already scoop up terabytes of encrypted communication. Whatever they can’t crack today can just go into long-term storage, waiting for quantum computers to get powerful enough to break them.
EuroHPC Announces First Exascale Supercomputer and Four Other Systems
(June 15, 2022)
JUPITER, EuroHPC says, will be the first European exascale supercomputer when it is installed in 2023. It will be hosted by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (FZJ) in a specially designed building.
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But that wasn’t all: EuroHPC also announced four additional sites for “mid-range supercomputers with petascale or pre-exascale capabilities”: Greece, Hungary, Ireland and Poland.
NATO Secretary General calls for creation of a transatlantic quantum community, welcomes Denmark’s leadership
(29 Sep. 2023)
Later in the day, the Secretary General opened the new NATO accelerator site “Deep Tech Lab – Quantum” together with the Danish Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsen; the Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Morten Bødskov; and the Minister of Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund. The Lab will help start-ups from across the Alliance commercialise quantum-enabled solutions, as part of NATO’s new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA).
DIANA consists of a network of test centers and accelerator sites across NATO countries, where innovators develop new technologies to solve pressing security challenges. The Deep Tech Lab – Quantum in Copenhagen is one of five pilot accelerator sites launched in 2023.
What‘s happening in Parliament next week?
Main debate: MPs consider Lords amendments to the extensively paused and re-written Online Safety Bill.
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The government now says that the tech regulator, Ofcom, would only require companies to scan their networks for harmful material, like child sexual abuse and exploitation content, when a technology was developed that was capable of doing so – thus kicking the issue into the very long grass.
IBM Launches $100 Million Partnership with Global Universities to Develop Novel Technologies Towards a 100,000-Qubit Quantum-Centric Supercomputer
Over the next decade, IBM plans to work with university partners and its worldwide quantum ecosystem to evolve how its quantum processors can be connected via quantum interconnects. This work will aim to enable high-efficiency, high-fidelity inter-processor quantum operations and a reliable, flexible, and affordable system component infrastructure to allow scaling to 100,000 qubits.
IBM‘s collaboration with the University of Chicago will build upon the Chicago area‘s strengths in quantum research. The University of Chicago seeded the region‘s quantum ecosystem more than a decade ago with the decision to make quantum technology a focus of what is now the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.
IBM hat seinen ersten 1.000-Qubit-Computer für den On-Premises-Einsatz verkauft
(23.06.2021)
Der Schutz der Qubits vor Störeinflüssen aus der Umgebung stand bei der Entwicklung von Anfang an an erster Stelle. Die empfindliche Instrumentierung wird in einem neun Fuß mal neun Fuß großen, luftdichten Gehäuse untergebracht, das aus einem halben Zoll dicken Borosilikatglas besteht, wobei der Kryostat, die Steuerelektronik und der Rahmen strukturell von den Kernkomponenten isoliert sind.
IBM begins installing on-premise quantum computer at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic
(October 24, 2022)
Cleveland Clinic will also be home to the world’s first on-premise Q System Two – IBM’s ‘next generation 1,000+ qubit‘ system – in the future. The company‘s most powerful quantum chip is currently the 127-qubit Eagle, announced last year; the 433-qubit Osprey is due to launch sometime this year.
How Quantum Computers Work
A 30-qubit quantum computer would equal the processing power of a conventional computer that could run at 10 teraflops (trillions of floating-point operations per second).
The Mathematics Behind Quantum Computing: Part I
(May 2007)
For a 1024-bit number, Shor‘s Algorithm requires on the order of 1024(3), about one billion, operations. I do not have any information on how quickly quantum operations can be executed, but if each one took one second our factorization would last 34 years. If a quantum computer could run at the speed of today‘s electronic computers (100 million instructions per second and up) then factorization of the 1024-bit number would be a matter of seconds.
The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
(08 February 2022)
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National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems
(May 04, 2022)
A classified annex to this memorandum addresses sensitive national security issues.
Section 1. Policy. (a) Quantum computers hold the potential to drive innovations across the American economy, from fields as diverse as materials science and pharmaceuticals to finance and energy. While the full range of applications of quantum computers is still unknown, it is nevertheless clear that America’s continued technological and scientific leadership will depend, at least in part, on the Nation’s ability to maintain a competitive advantage in quantum computing and QIS.
(b) Yet alongside its potential benefits, quantum computing also poses significant risks to the economic and national security of the United States. Most notably, a quantum computer of sufficient size and sophistication — also known as a cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) — will be capable of breaking much of the public-key cryptography used on digital systems across the United States and around the world. When it becomes available, a CRQC could jeopardize civilian and military communications, undermine supervisory and control systems for critical infrastructure, and defeat security protocols for most Internet-based financial transactions.
ZITiS baut Supercomputer zur Entschlüsselung
(16.10.2018)
Dieser Supercomputer hat „höchste Priorität“ für die ZITiS-Abnehmer Verfassungsschutz, Bundeskriminalamt und Bundespolizei.
Vor zwei Wochen wurde bekannt, dass ZITiS auch einen Quantencomputer einsetzen will. Ob Supercomputer und Quantencomputer verschiedene Projekte sind, will ZITiS auf Anfrage nicht verraten:
IBM now has 18 quantum computers in its fleet of weird machines
(May 6, 2020)
Eighteen quantum computers might not sound like a lot. But given that each one is an unwieldy device chilled within a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and operated by Ph.D. researchers, it‘s actually a pretty large fleet. In comparison, Google‘s quantum computers lab near Santa Barbara, California, has only five machines, and Honeywell only has six quantum computers.
How Quantum Computer Could Break 2,048-Bit RSA Encryption in 8 Hours
(June 5, 2019)
Google‘s Craig Gidney and KTH‘s Martin Ekera demonstrated that a quantum system could crack 2,048-bit RSA encryption with just 20 million quantum bits (qubits), rather than requiring 1 billion qubits as previously theorized, in only eight hours with this technique.
The technique uses modular exponentiation, a mathematical process for finding the remainder when a number is raised to a certain power and divided by another number.
Gidney and Ekera have formulated various ways to optimize this process, reducing the resources required to run the large-number-factoring Shor‘s algorithm.
Data Protection Cyber Insights 2023 | Quantum Computing and the Coming Cryptopocalypse
(February 2, 2023)
The one thing we can say with certainty is that it definitely won’t happen in 2023 – probably. That probably comes from not knowing for certain what stage in the journey to quantum computing has been achieved by foreign nations or their intelligence agencies – and they’re not likely to tell us. Nevertheless, it is assumed that nobody yet has a quantum computer powerful enough to run Shor’s algorithm and crack PKI encryption in a meaningful timeframe.
„Verzwicktes Problem“: Europol erwägt Schwachstellennutzung, um Verschlüsselung zu brechen
Seit mindestens sieben Jahren suchen die EU-Mitgliedstaaten nach Wegen, um ihren Strafverfolgungsbehörden Zugang zu verschlüsselten Inhalten zu ermöglichen.
Quantencomputer in Deutschland
(2021)
Seit Januar 2021 kann sich auch Deutschland mit einem ersten funktionsfähigen Quantencomputer brüsten. Doch zumindest seine Produktion fand noch im Ausland statt: Fast ein Jahr dauerte der Bau des IBM Q System One in den USA. Dabei war der Zeitaufwand für den physischen Aufbau mit einer Dauer von knapp zwei Monaten recht überschaubar. Das Gros der Arbeitszeit nahm, wie bei Quantencomputern üblich, die Kalibrierung der Qubits ein, um Fehlerraten zu verringern und Kohärenzzeiten möglichst zu verlängern. Zudem wurde die tatsächliche Installation des Systems in Ehningen durch die Coronapandemie erschwert.
What Angela Merkel and IBM’s CEO have in common…
(October 2, 2019)
Instead, the German government’s backing for Quantum Computing research sealed between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ginni Rometty (IBM CEO) indicates that both are excited about the latest technology and how it can improve the world we live in. Ultimately solving problems that seemed completely impossible just a few years ago – also from Europe.
The goal for Merkel and Germany? To catch up with China and the USA in the global technology race.
IBM now has 18 quantum computers in its fleet of weird machines
(May 6, 2020)
Eighteen quantum computers might not sound like a lot. But given that each one is an unwieldy device chilled within a fraction of a degree above absolute zero and operated by Ph.D. researchers, it‘s actually a pretty large fleet. In comparison, Google‘s quantum computers lab near Santa Barbara, California, has only five machines, and Honeywell only has six quantum computers.