China is planning to use quantum computers to decrypt tons of stolen data, report suggests

Date:
Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:30:00 +0000

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China may steal encrypted data that offers intelligence longevity to decrypt it with quantum computers, eventually, according to report.

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Chinese threat groups will soon go about canvassing for encrypted data that theyll hoard in the hopes of eventually decrypting it with quantum computers
, suggests a new report.

Compiled by IT consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the report delivers insight into the practical importance of quantum computing to organizational leaders and chief information security officers (CISO) who fail to appreciate the importance of the upcoming technology.

By the end of the 2020s, Chinese threat groups will likely collect data that enables quantum simulators to discover new economically valuable materials, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. Quantum-assisted AI [Artificial
Intelligence], meanwhile, is unlikely to emerge or influence adversary behavior in the foreseeable future, suggests the report.

The report comes barely a week after the US Department of Commerce's Bureau
of Industry and Security added 27 companies to its list of entities
prohibited from doing business with the US, including eight Chinese firms
that dabble with quantum computing, on grounds they threaten national security. Long-term intelligence

The report offers a detailed analysis of the development of quantum
computing, while comparing them against specific Chinese advancements, which leads it to conclude that China has emerged as a major player in quantum computing.

It argues that one of the areas where itll use its quantum computing
advantage is espionage, saying that in the 2020s itll likely increasingly steal data that could be used to feed quantum simulations.

Despite its Quantum Computing edge, the firm believes that its highly
unlikely that China will be able to develop the ability to break current generation encryption with quantum computers before the end of the decade.

However, this shouldnt stand in the way of encrypted data with intelligence longevity, like biometric markers, covert intelligence officer and source identities, Social Security numbers, and weapons designs, which are some of the encrypted data that the country might look to steal for the long term.



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