For more than three decades, cryptographers, physicists, and national-security experts have warned about a single moment they call "Q-Day"-the day a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) can run Shor's algorithm fast enough to shatter the public-key encryption that protects nearly every secure communication on the planet. Until recently, that day felt comfortably distant, something for the 2030s or beyond.
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