While President Biden was visiting Europe, he should have stopped to take a close look at what the European Union and Europeans countries and labs are doing to protect against future quantum computer attack—a threat this column has highlighted over the past two years.
While the U.S. is betting all its quantum security chips on post-quantum cryptography, i.e. mathematically-based algorithms scientists and cryptographers hope will resist a future quantum computer assault—scientists, companies, and officials in Europe are investing in a technology that uses quantum science itself to secure data and networks, now and for decades into the future.
Quantum cryptography. Eye of an observer reflected in a mirror in quantum cryptography apparatus. … [+]
