In the realm of cybersecurity, a shadow looms over the sanctity of our encrypted data. The specter of quantum computing threatens to unravel the very foundations of our digital security, challenging the加密 algorithms that have protected our secrets for decades. But why are nation states and individual actors stockpiling encrypted data now, even though they can't decrypt it? The answer lies in a strategy known as "Store Now, Decrypt Later" or SNDL.
The goal of encryption is to scramble data so thoroughly that only the intended recipient can decode it. At the heart of virtually all private internet communication lies a mathematical phenomenon: the difficulty of factoring large numbers using conventional computers. But what if a quantum computer could effortlessly crack this code? Enter Shor's algorithm.