How quantum computers will speed up the breaking of public-key cryptography and how "post-quantum cryptography" researchers are trying counter that threat (Joshua Holden/Nautilus)

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Joshua Holden / Nautilus:
How quantum computers will speed up the breaking of public-key cryptography and how “post-quantum cryptography” researchers are trying counter that threat  —  Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, certainly raised the profile of quantum computing a few notches last year …