News Summary

• The internet is preparing for a post-quantum world that renders much of the encryption the world has relied on obsolete.
• By some estimates, the viability of quantum computers capable of this level of decryption are still several years away.
• But preparations are already happening - and not just by the good guys.
• The shift to protecting against quantum threats introduces new problems for the wider internet.
• Longer signatures during exchanges add to congestion, and when multiplied by the millions of terabytes of data transferred across the internet each day, this could compound into a serious logistical problem.