Break point - encryption post quantum

Computing power grows exponentially, seemingly relentlessly, so cracking the most secure codes currently in use is a matter of not much more time; in fact, it may have happened, unbeknownst to any but a few in one or more governments, which is disturbing enough, and that's before the enrichment potential for fraudsters. Paul Cochrane looks to the next digital arms race, already begun.

Computing power grows exponentially, seemingly relentlessly, so cracking the most secure codes currently in use is a matter of not much more time; in fact, it may have happened, unbeknownst to any but a few in one or more governments, which is disturbing enough, and that's before the enrichment potential for fraudsters. Paul Cochrane looks to the next digital arms race, already begun.