When we think of technology and geostrategic competition, artificial intelligence and the race between China and the US to dominate these technologies and the standards that regulate them most readily come to mind.
But a breakthrough in quantum information technology could change the nature of the internet itself, completely upending the foundations of information security as well as the current parameters of geostrategic digital tech competition.
How? By being able to break the key encryption models on which public and private internet networks depend to send information securely everything from banking transactions to highly classified intelligence reporting.
That is the risk explored in an ASPI Special Report released this week,