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How Enterprises Can Prepare for Quantum Computing Security Threats

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Shannon
Community Manager
1 month ago
As quantum computing moves from research labs into the enterprise, it introduces a critical threat to current public key encryption through "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks. In this episode of ...
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J_Shin
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1 month ago

Very informative, practical guidance for enterprises in planning/preparation when "qubit instability" has been solved for...
The practice of bad actors harvesting encrypted data now for later is interesting and concerning, to say the least.  

-Quantum Risk Analysis
-A networking consideration/impact, as Tom mentioned, when PQC Post Quantum Computing is in play-  "PQC keys and message sizes can be kilobytes, not bytes."
-High packet overhead, larger MTU to mitigate fragmentation- interesting to see the evolution in networking to enable the higher than usual requirements 

Good stuff!