Irish Teen Introduces New Encryption System Resistant to Quantum Computers by Joseph Young.
From the post:
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… a 16-year-old student was named as Ireland’s top young scientist and technologist of 2017, after demonstrating the application of qCrypt, which offers higher levels of protection, privacy and encryption in comparison to other innovative and widely-used cryptographic systems.BT Young Scientist Judge John Dunnion, the associate professor at University of College Dublin, praised Curran’s project that foresaw the impact quantum computing will have on current cryptographic and encryption methods.
“qCrypt is a novel distributed data storage system that provides greater protection for user data than is currently available. It addresses a number of shortfalls of current data encryption systems; in particular, the algorithm used in the system has been demonstrated to be resistant to attacks by quantum computers in the future,” said Dunnion.
While it may be too early to predict whether technologies like qCrypt can protect existing encryption methods and data protection systems from quantum computers, Curran and the judges of the competition saw promising potential in the technology.
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Word is spreading rapidly.
qCrypt has a place-holder website, Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Masses.
A Youtube video:
Shane’s Github repository (no qCrypt, yet)
Not to mention Shane’s website.
qCrypt has the potential to provide safety from government surveillance for everyone, everywhere.
Looking forward to this!