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People have known for decades that quantum computing will one day become a serious threat to our standard forms of encryption<\/a> because of their enormous power in computing certain tough problems.<\/p>\n

Until just a few years ago, quantum computers were a 50-year-old concept first introduced by Richard Feynman in 1959. In 2009, Yale scientists created a two-qubit chip, and IBM now has a 20-qubit system, the IBM Q, that it has made available to outside developers for testing applications.<\/p>\n

Read also: FBI won’t say how many investigations are hindered by encryption<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This acceleration in quantum computing technologies has brought forward the that day when quantum computers will break our public\/private key encryption. Welcome to the future transparency of today.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there is a solution — protect your data with lattice cryptography<\/a>. This is an encryption method that is resistant to quantum computers, and it uses the same amount of computing resources that public\/private key uses, so there will not be a penalty in terms of performance.<\/p>\n

There are other possible forms of encryption that resist quantum computer attacks, but IBM has put its weight behind lattice cryptography<\/a> as unbreakable and has offered it as an industry standard.<\/p>\n

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Arvind Krishna<\/a>, director of IBM Research, recently said<\/a> that to ensure data protection of at least 10 years — people should plan to move their data today.<\/p>\n

Lattice cryptography encrypts data inside mathematical lattices and is considered unbreakable (without a backdoor ). It has an additional benefit in that it can be used to perform processes on an encrypted file without decrypting its data first — a technology called Fully Homomorphic Encryption. This greatly improves overall system security.<\/p>\n

Read also: Tech giants hit by NSA spying slam encryption backdoors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a video of IBM researcher Cecilia Boschini explaining lattice cryptography:<\/p>\n