Cyber Insights 2026: Quantum Computing and the Potential Synergy With Advanced AI
securityweek| SecurityWeek’s Cyber Insights 2026 examines expert opinions on the expected evolution of more than a dozen areas of cybersecurity interest over the next 12 months. We spoke to hundreds of individual experts to gain their expert opinions. Here we explore quantum computing and its threat to current encryption, where the use of AI might shorten the timescale to powerful quantum; and the unknown threat of powerful quantum automated by advanced AI. |
It’s hard not to have a dystopian view on the long term future effect of powerful quantum computers wedded to advanced artificial intelligence. But at least we have a few years to prepare.
Quantum computers are coming, with a potential computing power almost beyond comprehension. That’s a given. The known threat is to current public key encryption methods, such as RSA and ECC, which will both be crackable through Shor’s algorithm in short timeframes. It ...
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