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How quantum computers will undermine cryptography

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As a result, investment in quantum computing has increased and the pace of development has accelerated, with companies like Microsoft and IBM getting on board in recent years. While it used to be thought that the first functioning quantum computers would emerge in 2050, it now looks like they may only be 10-20 years away.

However, Mr Snow warns that while quantum computers will be a "wonderful gift" for the scientific community, they also pose a "monstrous threat" to the security functions running on the World Wide Web.

"Every single security function out there is using something called public-key cryptography. It's a specific set of algoriths and they all share one common property they absolutely spill their guts and fall apart under a quantum computing attack," said Mr Snow.

"So the quantum computer comes to exist, and web security is dead. Nobody should send any money anywhere over the web again."

Mr Snow said this is mainly due to vulnerabilities in the 'border gateway control engines' that transfer data across national borders. These vulnerabilities are well documented, and cyber criminals have been exploiting them to steal money and spy on web users for the past 20 years, but they have never been fixed because the web is not owned or controlled by any single entity.

The only people with the power to fix the vulnerabilities are the network administrators that control the border gateway protocol, but they do not regard data protection as their problem, as their job is simply to ship data across boundaries not to store it.

"They don't realise that if the border gateway protocol is fixed, it would solve a hell of a lot of problems for the millions of people that are being misdirected on the end points at their sites because of bad routing decisions that have been made by attackers," said Mr Snow.

In the event that these border gateway control engines are taken down by a quantum computing attack, it could bring down the entire Web, according to Mr Snow.

He pointed to the congressional testimony of Sami Saydjari, founder and president of the US Cyber Defense Agency, which was published in 2007 and demonstrated the potential devastation an incident of this scale could wreak.

Mr Saydjari claimed that, with three years preparation and a budget of $500 million, an attacker could launch a cyber attack that would take down the US infrastructure for 30 days, crippling transportation networks, rupturing oil and gas pipelines with improper control, disrupting financial services and disabling communications networks.

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This 10-Year-Old Is Headed To College, What’s Your Problem?

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by Gil Kaufman 16 hours ago

Ria Cheruvu is like any 10-year-old kid she loves to play piano, sing and dance. And, oh yeah, shes getting ready to graduate from high school next year and start college at Arizona State University, where she plans to study Neural Cryptography.

Wait, what? I not only had to spell-check that, but I had to Google what it even means, and Im not close to 10 years old.

You see, Cheruvu is a genius. Like, next-level genius. In addition to composing her own songs, shes currently studying genetics, writing expository essays in English and learning about algorithms in algebra. You know, kids stuff.

According to KSAZ in Arizona, Cheruvu will graduate seven years before her peers and has some pretty major plans for her future already.

Neural Cryptography, that is my career choice, she said when asked what her major might be. It is the study of neuroscience which is the study of the brain and the mind cryptography which is coding.

And, while youre still trying to figure out what to have for lunch today, Cheruvu who loves noodles and quesadillas has also plotted out what she wants to do after college too. I want to kind of prevent diseases like Alzheimers maybe, and possibly find an alternative cure, she said.

Cheruvu lives with her parents in Gilbert, Arizona, and attends a special online school called Arizona Connections Academy, where shes currently taking honors courses intended for seniors and has just written an original soliloquy for Shakespeares Macbeth. And get this: her parents rule is no homework after 6 p.m. What does she do when shes done with her work for the day? I go on bike rides with my friends, she said.

And she wants to be president, of course.

Often guilty, never convicted. Serving 15 years to life at MTV News.

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Meet the 10-year-old genius girl getting ready to graduate high school

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GILBERT, Ariz. Shes 10 years old, and shes not only heard of the word neural cryptography, she can define it and eventually, she wants to make a career of it.

At only 10 years old, Ria Cheruvu has been going to Arizona Connections Academy for five years, and shes already planning her career.

I want to study neural cryptography, she said.

KTVK reports that Cheruvu plans to get her bachelors degree before she can even drive.

I want to go through with that and keep on learning, she said.

After that, she hopes to get her masters degree at Harvard.

Ive had no barriers so far that are obstructing me from reaching my goal, said Cheruvu.

She said her online classes at Arizona Connections Academy have helped her progress through her high school credits quickly.

The curriculum really engages students, she said.

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