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Quantum computing will make encryption techniques obsolete—the U.S. government has a plan
Fast CompanyFor roughly three decades, experts in digital cryptography have been monitoring a distant threat: that a powerful enough quantum computer could one day render the most widely used forms of encryption—the layer of code protecting everything from nation…