alt Hacker NewsIn other words, get off the cloud so nobody has your encrypted data which they will be able to crack in a few minutes five or ten years from now?
In other words, get off the cloud so nobody has your encrypted data which they will be able to crack in a few minutes five or ten years from now?
It depends on the algorithm you use to encrypt your data.
Only asymmetric cryptography is threatened. There is no realistic threat to symmetric encryption like AES.
If you are encrypting your cloud data with ed25519 or RSA, then yes, a quantum computer could theoretically someday crack them.