When Quantum Breaks Everything

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Apr 14, 2026 · 23m

The threat from quantum computing isn't theoretical anymore. In August 2024, NIST finalized the first post-quantum cryptography standards—lattice-based algorithms designed to survive attacks from machines that don't yet exist. This episode explores what quantum computers actually do to modern encryption, why the "harvest-now-decrypt-later" attack is happening today, and how the internet's cryptographic foundation is being rebuilt. We also dig into the frontier: homomorphic encryption (computing on encrypted data), zero-knowledge proofs, and what it means when the computational substrate…