In December 2021, the Hungarian Parliament amended the Act on Electronic Information Security of State and Local Government Bodies in order to define the basic requirements for post-quantum encryption, designate the authority responsible for the topic and define the scope of application of…
Preparation for the post-quantum era
The potential ability of quantum computing devices and their impact on current data protection practices, especially regarding the applicable data security measures (e.g. encryption) is a topic that needs to be addressed in a timely manner even if we are still far from the everyday and widespread…
Quantum supremacy and data protection
It was all over the news a few days ago that Google had reached the quantum supremacy in an experiment, where a quantum processor proved that the figures pumped out by a random number generator were indeed random. This task took 3 minutes 20 seconds (200 seconds) for the quantum processor and…