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Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) refers to a new generation of cybersecurity technologies designed to protect digital information against future attacks from quantum computers. While today’s encryption systems safeguard everything from banking transactions to government communications, many of the most widely used methods could eventually be broken by sufficiently powerful quantum machines.
PQC aims to solve that problem by developing encryption algorithms that can run on today’s classical computers while remaining resistant to attacks from both classical and quantum systems. Governments, technology companies, financial institutions, and critical infrastructure operators are increasingly preparing for this transition as concerns grow over “harvest now, decrypt later” strategies, in which encrypted data collected today could be decoded in the future.
The field combines mathematics, computer science, and cybersecurity research to build secure communication systems for the quantum era. As quantum computing advances, post-quantum cryptography is expected to become a foundational layer of global digital security infrastructure.