By Greg Satell
The Encryption Problem
The future of quantum computers is profoundly exciting, but it also comes with a catch. Cryptologists 
use the limitations of our current technology to keep our information and transactions secure. Once we are able to manage massive complexity with quantum computing, our present encryption standards will be rendered ineffective.
That seems profoundly scary. As Jason Bloomberg wrote in the Forbes article mentioned above, “should the Russian government break all of our encryption before the US develops countermeasures, stolen elections will seem like small potatoes. Welcome to the cyber-battlefield of the 21st century.”
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