Using just a laptop, an encryption code designed to prevent a quantum computer attack was cracked in just 53 hours | Science & Tech | EL PAÍS English Edition

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-03-24/using-just-a-laptop-an-en... Security in an age when quantum computing is about to explode is one of the major concerns for all of the protection systems the world over. (According to Jian-Wei Pan, the major expert in this scientific field in China, “the next quantum breakthrough will happen in five years.”) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wanted to put seven encryption formulas to the test in order to determine their vulnerability to the new processing systems. Ward Beullens, from the IBM research center in Zurich, Switzerland, managed to crack an encrypted code in just 53 hours and with a simple laptop.