The National Bureau for connection security, part of the intelligence service AIVD, says together with the TU Delft to do research on quantum computing solutions that. The AIVD thinks such computers in the future to be able to use for decrypting and encrypting data.
According to the National Bureau for connection security is the global research into quantum computing solutions that are still at an early stage, already in Germany, there are systems developed that fourteen to sixteen qubits. The computing power of this experimental quantum computing solutions that is still insufficient to strong cryptography to crack. The AIVD believes that in the medium term, change will come.
The TU Delft, with which the AIVD conducts research, estimates that somewhere between 2030 and 2040 quantum computing solutions that are built with thousands of qubits. That is more than sufficient to the current encryption methods to crack. The AIVD cautions that for example the NSA since 2011, the research would do to quantum computing solutions that, while referring to documents provided by Snowden have revealed.
The secret service thinks that quantum computing solutions that not only many of the current encryption methods quickly may crack, but that they also ‘unbreakable’ encryption can deliver. This is quantum key distribution technology developed. Therefore, according to the AIVD there is still a lot of mathematical research is needed.
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