Are You Ready to Witness the Future of Data Security?
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Imagine an adversary recording all your encrypted traffic today - your VPN sessions, your cloud backups, your email. They can't decrypt it now, but they store it. In 2030 or 2035, quantum computers arrive and retroactively decrypt everything. Your secrets from 2024 become readable in 2035. This isn't theoretical - Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA has storage facilities specifically for encrypted data they can't currently decrypt. Other nation-states do the same. The attack works because data has a lifetime. Medical records stay sensitive for decades. Trade secrets matter for years. Government classifications span 25+ years. State secrets might matter for 50+ years. If the data is valuable and the encryption is quantum-vulnerable, harvest-now-decrypt-later is happening right now. The defense is simple but urgent: deploy quantum-safe cryptography today. If you wait until quantum computers exist, your historical data is already compromised. QKD from QNu Labs' Armos protects against this by detecting eavesdropping as it happens.
Intelligence agencies openly discuss HNDL as a current strategy. Healthcare data under HIPAA remains sensitive for 50+ years. Financial records, R&D data, government communications - all targets for harvest-now-decrypt-later. This attack doesn't require quantum computers to exist today, just the belief they'll exist within your data's sensitivity lifetime.
HNDL transforms quantum computing from a future threat to a present crisis. Organizations can't wait for quantum computers to appear before acting - by then the damage is done. This is why NIST, NSA, and every security agency emphasize immediate migration to post-quantum cryptography, even though large-scale quantum computers are years away.
Protecting long-lived sensitive data like medical records and government secrets, securing intellectual property and trade secrets, defending financial records and transaction data, safeguarding research and development communications, protecting classified government and military information
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