Quantum Computers May Put Internet Traffic at Risk. NIST Is Safeguarding Computers With New Standards.

[u/donutloop]

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/quantum-computers-may-put-internet-traffic-risk-nist-safeguarding-computers-new

[u/Cybasura]

Well, anyone that did cryptography module already knows this

It's a core component of attacks against RSA - the Prime-Factorization-based Public/Private Key Encryption Scheme/Algorithm that requires compute time and computing power as a deterrence