Good and Evil

As we know that Quantum technology is going to be a great aid in cyber security. Using encryption, information can be hidden, faithfulness proven and personal identity verified. A challenge that many are presently studying is how encryption should be adapted for a world where we have many connected devices that may not have all that much calculative capacity, memory and electrical power. This is a major challenge but many have taken it on and the technology will someday be possible in the near future. However, whatever can be use for good, can also be use for evil.

According to Google a quantum computer is 100 million times faster than any classical computer in its lab. Every day it produces 2.5 exabytes of data. That number is equivalent to the content on 5 million laptops. Quantum computers will make it possible to process the amount of data we’re generating in the age of big data.

The question is; What should we do when a government decides to use it to preform cyber attacks on another country? I know… this sounds like something from science fiction book or movie, but I honestly believe that we should be ready to answer the question. Will quantum computer break encryption?