Quantum Leap?

Company researchers discovered a fault-tolerant quantum computer.

They estimate that conducting quantum computation for about 104 days would be necessary to break RSA.

A concept image of quantum computing overlaying binary data for personal information.

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“We cannot be complacent either, however.

Quantum computing can make finding the prime numbers encryption relies on trivial.

But there are things users can do to protect against the quantum decryption threat.

He suggested using multifactor authentication and being aware of potential phishing attacks (don’t choose unknown links).