In what promises to be a technological race similar to the scale of the Manhattan Project, governments around the world are working with their defense, intelligence and academic sectors to develop quantum computing ahead of their near-peer competitors.
As FedScoop writes, “Because quantum computing is based on encoding data into the superposition of states and creating quantum bits, or qubits, rather than the ones and zeros in the binary digits of electronic computers, quantum computers would be able to crack the large number of Rivest-Shamir-Adleman [RSA] cryptography currently in wide use.”
Given the advances already announced by both China and Russia, the Anglo-American alliance of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand need to expand beyond their traditional intelligence collaboration into co-development efforts on quantum computing and its revolutionary cryptography. Click here for more details.
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