This study by researchers of Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) has recently been published in the scientific (MDPI) journal Telecom: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4001/6/4/100
From the abstract of the study:
“Telecommunication infrastructures rely on cryptographic protocols designed for long-term confidentiality, yet data exchanged today faces future exposure when adversaries acquire quantum or large-scale computational capabilities. This harvest-now, decrypt-later (HNDL) threat transforms persistent communication records into time-dependent vulnerabilities. We model HNDL as a temporal cybersecurity risk, formalizing the adversarial process of deferred decryption and quantifying its impact across sectors with varying confidentiality requirements. Our framework evaluates how delayed post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration amplifies exposure and how hybrid key exchange and forward-secure mechanisms mitigate it.”
Full study and origin of text: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4001/6/4/100
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