The power of quantum computers of the future may well crack the encryption methods we rely on. Therefore now testing Google new way to encrypt that will be future proof, writes PC World.
In a blog post on Google säkerhesblogg writes developer Matt Brainwaithe that a “hypothetical future quantum computer can decrypt all Internet communications made today in retrospect and many types of information need to be secret for decades. ” Therefore, he says, is this something we need to think about today.
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Unlike today’s computers that provide data ones and zeros use quantum computers of the so-called qubits or quantum bits can be simultaneously ones and zeros. In short means that they will be incredibly much faster and more efficiently.
Although it is difficult to know when quantum computers really come into the game in earnest begins Google then prepare. And what the company calls the “post-quantum cryptography” to be tested in webbäsaren Chrome Canary.
The experiment with new encryption is added on top of the encryption that is already in use and will only cover a fraction of the relations between the browser and Google’s servers.
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“Post quantum algorithm may prove to be possible to break even with today’s computers,” writes Matt Braithwaite.
However, he notes, “if the algorithm proves safe, it will be able to protect traffic even against a future quantum computer.”
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