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Ailyn Woodward

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WSJ What’s News

Trump Considers Slashing China Tariffs

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Today, our data is protected by encryption keys. And these encryption keys are based on algorithms, like mathematical formulas, that with enough computing power can be broken by like a quantum computer. And these quantum computers are getting better and more powerful. So eventually it's possible that encryption keys could be broken. But quantum cryptography...

WSJ What’s News

Trump Considers Slashing China Tariffs

723.216

basically generates a key that isn't based on any math and therefore is like virtually uncrackable. We're talking about a 500-digit string of random values. You can't reverse engineer that.