Cyber Insights 2026: Quantum Computing And The Potential Synergy With Advanced AI
Security Week, Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
It's hard not to have a dystopian view on the long term future effect of powerful quantum computers wedded to advanced artificial intelligence. But at least we have a few years to prepare.
Quantum computers are coming, with a potential computing power almost beyond comprehension. That's a given. The known threat is to current public key encryption methods, such as RSA and ECC, which will both be crackable through Shor's algorithm in short timeframes. It is believed that nation states and advanced criminal gangs are engaged in a widespread harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) campaign - steal and store data and secrets today, even if they are encrypted, because they can be decrypted later with quantum computers.