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The Crypto apocalypse is approaching as Quantum finally cracks classical encryption…
We have already enter an era of “Intelligentized Warfare” as everything is in play and already being hacked…
Well apparently the Chinese have done it…they have breached SHA256 and Elliptic Curve cryptography according the several newswire stories reporting on announcements from Shanghai University.
It’s been a big question of not IF but WHEN quantum machines will brute force crack open cryptography based on factors of fairly large numbers. The warnings have been around when Alpha Go discovered and then played entirely new moves never seen before just like that, in a universe of possible moves.
I wrote about the ‘quantum threat’ back in January 2021 when the consensus was it would be 30 years before quantum machines get powerful enough. But here is the flaw in this thinking — everyone assumes the hacking parties are not grabbing encrypted data!
News from Shanghai is a powerful reminder that all of your assets, data is already at risk . An those of you believing state sponsored hackers see no value in stealing encrypted data are WRONG.
