Like the wait for nuclear fusion energy, and Half-Life 3, there has long been speculation that the era of quantum computing is imminent. If – or perhaps when – the breakthrough is finally made, it will signal a major revolution in computing, with the most immediate consequence being that it will render much of our existing digital security obsolete.
“Due to an accident of how quantum computers work, they are going to completely crush the fundamental mathematical problem that sits behind the RSA and the ECC encryption algorithms,”
