Quantum Threat Tracker Released

The Quantum Threat Tracker is a tool for quantifying the threat quantum computers pose to real-world cryptosystems. In recent years, quantum computing has seen a flurry of improvements in error correction, magic state distillation, arithmetic circuits, and more.

As a consequence, the threat posed by Shor’s algorithm against public-key cryptographic protocols has changed from being purely hypothetical to a true concern in practice. Estimating when such protocols will be rendered insecure will be of vital importance to security experts when planning the transition to post-quantum cryptosystems.

Cambridge Consultants, in collaboration with Quantum Software Lab at The University of Edinburgh, have developed the Quantum Threat Tracker (QTT) – a tool for forecasting the threat quantum computers pose against public-key cryptosystems. The QTT combines quantum resource estimation techniques with the most well-optimised variants of Shor’s algorithm to estimate the number of physical qubits and algorithm runtime required to break given protocols.

Based on a projection of the future development of quantum computing hardware, the QTT is then able to forecast when in the future the protocols will be broken.

The QTT is open source and freely available for you to use here: GitHub – qec-codes/QuantumThreatTracker: A tool for quantifying the threat quantum computers pose to public-key cryptosystems.

Origin of text/LinkedIn Post from Walden Killick: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/waldenkillick_presenting-the-quantum-threat-tracker-a-activity-7330509064138887171-m12d/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADdjxv8BogtTYxi6izsn-jL6EigCxJSUfc0
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