In the U.K., a company called Arqit is quietly preparing businesses for cyberattacks in the age of quantum computing.
Quantum computing aims to apply the principles of quantum physics — a body of science that seeks to describe the world at the level of atoms and subatomic particles — to computers.
Kasper Rasmussen, associate professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, told CNBC that quantum computers are designed to do "certain very specific operations much faster than classical computers." "If we accept the fact that quantum computers will exist in 10 years, anyone with the foresight to record important conversations now might be in a position to decrypt them when quantum computers come about," Rasmussen said.
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