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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Urges Adoption of Memory-Safe Languages and Warns About Iran Cyber Threat

Security Boulevard

Here’s the problem: When super-powerful quantum computers become generally available – expected at some point between 2030 and 2040 – hackers will be able to use them to decrypt data protected with today’s public-key cryptographic algorithms.