In contemporary times of crisis, such as political instability, pandemic, wars and market volatility, a notable increment is the cyberattacks can be seen round the world. The cybercriminals take advantage of such turmoil and are launching more cyber attacks these days.
As the concept and applications of quantum computers go beyond into the domain of reality, it is time that society realizes the negative and positive impacts of such technologies and devices. While the possibility of quantum computers is being traversed at colossal, there are certain illustrations of quantum computers possessing an enormous impact on subsisting technologies and devices.
In this era of quantisation, it is vitally important to label the harmful impact of quantum computing on cybersecurity, peculiarly the provision of these computers can crack any techniques, in-use cryptographic models, and protocols. With adversaries like Japan quickly leading and gaining the quantum race, distinctly in communications and the computing sector, there is a necessite increased focus on Cybersecurity.
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Focus On Quantum Resistant Cryptography
At present, the frequently accepted cryptography model and their distinct algorithms is the public-key/asymmetric encryption model. A pair of keys is used in public-key encryption, each one for encrypting data and decrypting data. The text is encoded by a public key, and is decoded by a private key.
Similar techniques such as RSA employ algorithms to decrypt the message by the authorized owner of the private key. These keys are tough for traditional computers to break as the message encoded for the receiver public key can be unlocked by his private key only.
