The Threat of Quantum Computers.

Traditional key exchange algorithms - including Diffie-Hellman, RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography - are known to be vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently advanced quantum computer. A cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) will render most contemporary public key cryptography (PKC) insecure, thus making ubiquitous secure communications based on current PKC technology infeasible.

“It's the single-largest economic national-security issue we have ever faced as a Western society," said Denis Mandich, former U.S. intelligence official, at Quantum World Congress 2022 event in reference to a pending "quantum encryption apocalypse."

Quantum computers already exist, however, they're still quite primitive. A ‘powerful’, ‘useful,’ or CRQC one does not exist yet, but experts believe one will be created in the next 5-10 years, with Google and IBM both publicly declaring their plans of building a million qubit quantum computer by 2029. QAL VPN will protect your data once this happens and beyond.

The risk to data does not start in 5 years. Hackers could be stealing your classical VPN-protected data right now to decrypt in the near future when powerful quantum computers become available.

Security experts continue to worry that these captures of encrypted confidential business data have been underway for some time by cybercriminals with nefarious plans for future cyberattacks.

Without a means to prevent that data from being unencrypted later, all enterprises that are victimized today by such data captures would be incredibly vulnerable in the future, as quantum machines and their power become available to cyberattackers.

How long does your data need to be secure for? If the answer is more than five years, the time to switch to QAL-VPN might be today. Our quantum-safe VPN with Quantum-safe ALgorithms (QAL) can protect you against powerful quantum computers and we’re currently the only consumer VPN using them.

Thanks to our post-quantum algorithms, we're the only VPN that can now offer protection against the 'capture now, decrypt later’ attacks that quantum computers are threatening.