NASDAQ:GOOGL 8 September 2025 - 11 September 2025

In 2025, the race is on to rebuild our digital security before quantum computers can crack it. Modern encryption protocols like RSA and ECC – which protect everything from online banking to emails – could be rendered obsolete by a powerful quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm. Post-quantum cryptography refers to new cryptographic algorithms designed to resist quantum attacks while still running on conventional computers csrc.nist.gov csrc.nist.gov. After a 7-year global competition, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology finalized its first PQC standards in August 2024 nist.gov. These include a lattice-based key exchange and digital signature schemes derived from the algorithms CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, and SPHINCS+ csrc.nist.gov csrc.nist.gov. In March 2025, NIST selected an additional code-based encryption algorithm to be standardized by 2027 as a backup method csrc.nist.gov. “As we stand on the brink of a quantum revolution, the urgent need to migrate our cryptographic infrastructure to a quantum-safe framework has never been more critical,” warns cryptographer Michele Mosca weforum.org. The threat isn’t theoretical – attackers may already be stealing encrypted data now in hopes of decrypting it later when quantum decryption becomes possible f5.com cloudflare.com. This so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” tactic puts long-term sensitive information at risk today