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cryptography (noun). The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.

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The government unveils its quantum counter-weapons (www.politico.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18617290

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally published the world’s first three official post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, tools designed to protect key systems against future quantum computers powerful enough to crack any code generated by a modern computer.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

At the same time, everyone has already downloaded every encrypted archive in the world and will decrypt them first thing quantum computing becomes available, so all the data up until now are public data.