Preventing the Digital Doomsday

Everything is up and running as usual: banking apps, Wi-Fi, charging stations for electric cars. But what would happen if a quantum computer suddenly rendered all encryption methods commonly used today ineffective? A research alliance composed of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da), Hochschule RheinMain – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSRM) and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) is working on ways to prevent this – and rethinking cryptography in the process. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding their project with around €750,000.