Cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda urges the immediate rollout of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). He states the risk of inaction is now unacceptable.
New Google research indicates current encryption standards are more vulnerable to quantum attacks than previously estimated. The findings show that breaking these standards requires significantly fewer resources than expected.
Google accelerated its internal PQC migration timeline to 2029. This adjustment follows faster-than-expected advances in quantum computing technology.
The primary concern involves harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Adversaries steal and store encrypted data today to decrypt it once powerful quantum computers are available.