Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can resist future attacks of quantum computers in a movement destined to start what is probably the most formidable and important technological transition in modern history.
Computers that are based on the physics of quantum mechanics still do not exist outside the sophisticated laboratories, but it is a well -established science that will eventually do it. Instead of processing data in the binary state of zeros and those that quantum computers are executed in qubits, which cover innumerable states at the same time. This new capacity promises to achieve new unprecedented scale discoveries in a series of fields, including metallurgia, chemistry, discovery of drugs and financial modeling.
Tightening cryptopocalypse
One of the most disruptive changes that will bring quantum computing is the rupture of some of the most common forms of encryption, specifically, RSA cryptosystem and those based on elliptical curves. These systems are battle horses in which banks, governments and online services worldwide have been based for more than four decades to maintain their most confidential confidential data. RSA and the encryption keys of the elliptical curve that ensure web connections would require millions of years to decipher using today’s computers. A quantum computer could decipher the same keys in a matter of hours or minutes.
At the Microsoft Build 2025 conference on Monday, the company announced the availability of algorithms resistant to SymcryptThe central cryptographic code library in Windows. The updated library is available in Build 27852 and higher Windows 11 versions. In addition, Microsoft has updated Symcrypt-ApenslIts open source project that allows the OpenSssl library widely used to use Symcrypt for cryptographic operations.
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