{"id":125491,"date":"2025-05-23T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125491\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:36:17","slug":"breaking-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer-just-got-20-times-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125491\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 20 times easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\" width=\"1351\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SEI_252778695.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2481721\" data-caption=\"Quantum computers have long been a potential threat to encryption\" data-credit=\"sakkmesterke\/Shutterstock\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Quantum computers have long been a potential threat to encryption<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">sakkmesterke\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this new estimate is 20 times lower than previously thought, suggesting the day that encryption is cracked is closer thank we think.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2226458-number-crunchers-set-new-record-for-cracking-online-encryption-keys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widely used RSA algorithm<\/a>\u00a0relies on the fact that multiplying two\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23631460-500-riddle-of-the-primes-deciphering-the-nature-of-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prime numbers<\/a> to generate a large encryption key is easy, but finding those original prime factors when all you have is the resulting key\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quantum computers have long been a potential threat to encryption sakkmesterke\/Shutterstock Quantum computers could crack a common data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,3358,811,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-125491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-quantum-computing","10":"tag-security","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114557654377248361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}