Quantum computers powerful enough to break widely used public-key encryption aren’t here yet, but migration won’t be as simple as swapping in a new tool.

So I am wondering, is PGP/GPG still the best standard for general purpose pubic key cryptography, in 2025? * Pro: Standard that's been around a long time, so there is widespread tool/app support (e.g.

Reports began surfacing in October that Chinese researchers used a quantum computer to crack military-grade AES 256-bit encryption. Those reports turned out to be wrong, but that did little to dampen ...

Modern encryption relies on mathematical assumptions that quantum computers may soon render obsolete. This technological shift creates new ...

Classical public-key cryptography derives its security from integer factorisation. Diagram by Venus Kolhi. Quantum computers bring exponential computing power, ultrafast calculations, advanced ...

Cryptography is an obscure discipline. Unless you're in big tech, a university or a research organization, you're unlikely to meet its practitioners. Even then, you might have to search to find them.