{"id":233601,"date":"2025-07-03T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233601\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:55:09","slug":"quantum-tech-is-coming-and-with-it-a-risk-of-cyber-doomsday-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233601\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum tech is coming \u2014 and with it a risk of cyber doomsday \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. tech giant IBM,  a frontrunner in quantum tech, recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/quantum\/blog\/large-scale-ftqc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>\u00a0it expects to have the first workable quantum computer by 2029. That underlines the urgency of securing critical data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that we have this roadmap now and that all of the EU member states agreed on this \u2026 I think this is really a big step,\u201d said Stephan Ehlen, a cryptography expert at the German cybersecurity agency and one of the authors of the roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>But making a plan is just the start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not only about these algorithms, it\u2019s a huge migration problem &#8230; It affects billions and billions of systems,\u201d said Bart Preneel, a cryptographer also from KU Leuven. \u201cIt\u2019s a very complex problem that you cannot solve in a few A4s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a problem that hits home with national governments and their security and intelligence services. Several European governments have imposed export restrictions on quantum technology; the real concern for governments is whether their own communications are affected, and whether \u201ceverything they\u2019re doing can be exposed,\u201d Preneel said.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts have downplayed a doomsday scenario for quantum, arguing that even if computers are developed that can break modern encryption, it still requires a significant amount of work and money to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has no excuse not to push on, said Manfred Lochter, another official at the German cyber agency. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have access to quantum technologies, then you\u2019re lost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. tech giant IBM, a frontrunner in quantum tech, recently\u00a0announced\u00a0it expects to have the first workable quantum computer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3721,186,1395,14035,2001,7694,3457,2814,473,2000,299,5187,1699,6084,6657,3591,811,413,59106,53,15,49],"class_list":["post-233601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-algorithms","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-cloud","tag-communications","tag-critical-infrastructure","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-infrastructure","tag-migration","tag-quantum","tag-security","tag-space","tag-supercomputers","tag-technology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114787052719443889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233601","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=233601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}