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Switzerland beats UK to claim quantum computing breakthrough Terra Quantums discovery could lead to global secure networks for banks and governments 3 May 2021 • 10:00am A Swiss quantum computing start-up has claimed a major breakthrough in encryption technology, beating British technologists to develop a system that can send theoretically unhackable messages around the world. Terra Quantum, a Swiss business developing ways to keep sensitive information safe from the ability of quantum com...

Inside the race to keep secrets safe from the quantum computing revolution Start-ups are taking part in a global competition to upgrade encryption to fend off the quantum computing threat 28 February 2021 • 12:00pm The algorithms that have kept state secrets safe and confidential messages private since the 1970s are about to be broken. Security experts disagree on how long it will take - some say within five years, others a decade. But they’re all convinced that it’s just a matter of year...

Security experts have long worried that advances in quantum computing could eventually make it easier to break encryption that protects the privacy of people’s data. That’s because these sophisticated machines can perform calculations at speeds impossible for conventional computers, potentially enabling them to crack codes previously thought indecipherable. Now, a Swiss technology company says it has made a breakthrough by using quantum computers to uncover vulnerabilities in commonly use...

The protocol in detail The history of the non-stop contest between cryptographer and decipherers traces back to the cave ages and has seen many victories for both sides. Terra Quantum bases its solution on the Vernon’s cipher, the so-called ‘one-time pad’, proven by Claude Shannon to be unbreakable. Terra Quantum introduces the superfast quantum key distribution, establishing a practical realization of this procedure in the context of the modern superfast information communications servic...

Quantum computers could in several years be used to break some widespread encryption algorithms, the company said

Security experts have long worried that advances in quantum computing could eventually make it easier to break encryption that protects the privacy of people’s data. That’s because these sophisticated machines can perform calculations at speeds impossible for conventional computers, potentially enabling them to crack codes previously thought indecipherable.