The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning organizations to prepare for potential quantum hacking by 2035. The agency advises critical infrastructure providers to adopt post-quantum cryptography to secure their systems. Quantum computers pose a significant risk to current encryption methods because they can solve complex mathematical problems much faster than traditional computers. To ensure the safety of sensitive data, the NCSC recommends that organizations identify their vulnerable services by 2028 and complete their encryption upgrades by 2035, highlighting their new guidance as a crucial roadmap for safeguarding information.
Traditional computers encode their information in bits represented as a 0 or a 1 but quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which can represent and store information in vastly superior ways.
The NCSC is urging organisations to implement post-quantum cryptography to mitigate the risks associated with quantum computing breakthroughs that could compromise current encryption methods.
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