Quantum Computing and Its Implications for Cybersecurity

Authors

  • Muhammad Javed Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences Author

Keywords:

Quantum computing, cybersecurity, cryptography, post-quantum algorithm, Shor algorithm, virtual security, quantum resistance

Abstract

The subsequent sport changer in computational strength is quantum computing, which additionally has the ability of presenting answers to tough issues that the classical structures aren't capable of handle. Although this technological step forward holds guarantees of creating a few technological achievements in fields like drug discovery, optimization, and synthetic intelligence, it makes it very bodily tough to cyber security. Conventional cryptographic hardware like the ones counting on each RSA and ECC algorithms is liable to quantum assaults ensuing in algorithms like the ones invented with the aid of using Shor. In this paper, the writer narrows right all the way down to the duality of quantum computing or its capability to convert the manner issues are labored out or the manner it's far destabilising modern virtual protection structures. Focus is at the feel of urgency to create encryptions that the quantum can smash and the global scramble in quantum-associated studies, in addition to the moral and political components of the issue. With a vital evaluation of possibilities and threats of quantum computing, the observe has proven a dire want to put together proactive strategies to make certain the integrity of facts withinside the corporation at some point of the post-quantum.

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Published

2025-06-30