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Why prepare cryptography before a sufficiently capable quantum computer arrives? Mike Pound explains the motivation for post-quantum security and the impact quantum algorithms could have on existing public-key systems. This is an introduction to planning a transition, with the cryptographic threat framed as conditional rather than a claim that current machines can already break deployed encryption.

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