"The Future of Cybersecurity Hinges on Creating Harder Problems"

Gretchen Matthews, mathematics professor and director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative in Southwest Virginia, discusses new hard problems that can support cryptography for today's computing devices but could also survive an attack by an adversary through a quantum computer. Cybersecurity that protects sensitive online data heavily relies on the difficulty of solving a hard math problem. However, quantum computers are highly effective at solving the problems currently being used. Therefore, cryptographers and coding theorists worldwide are looking for new problems that would be hard for both conventional and quantum computers to solve. This article continues to discuss Matthews' insights and efforts.

Virginia Tech reports "The Future of Cybersecurity Hinges on Creating Harder Problems"

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