Engineers have demonstrated a new communications system designed to protect telecommunications against quantum computing attacks. The system, called “QS7001,” was presented on Jan. 22 by representatives of the Swiss semiconductor company SEALSQ at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. To protect data transmitted over the internet, from payment information to personal medical records, the contents of messages are encrypted. Encryption scrambles information using mathematical problems so complex that they cannot be solved without a “key,” which only the authorized parties (the sender and receiver) have access to. Although encryption does not in itself prevent interception of the message, it prevents anyone from reading the contents. However, scientists theorize that the massive processing power of future quantum computers would allow them to solve complex equations in seconds, where classical computers would have taken millions of years. They therefore have the potential to break conventional encryption technologies, such as RSA encryption.

Full research : Scientists in Switzerland have developed a new method to improve internet security against quantum computing attacks, using quantum-resistant encryption and a new type of hardware.