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# The Threat That Makes Encryption Useless
- URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/09/27/the-threat-that-makes-encryption-useless/
- Published: 2025-09-27T04:40:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-02T13:47:20.000Z
- Description: Do quantum computers have the ability to break our encryption, and are they actually a threat to the privacy of our communications? In this video, we dig into the details and separate fact from Silicon Valley hype!
- Author: Jordan Warne
- Tags: Videos

#### Sources:

1:27 <https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/13/quantum%5Fopenai%5Fhire/>  
1:30 <https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption/>  
3:00 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's\_algorithm#/media/File:Shor's\_algorithm.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s%5Falgorithm#/media/File:Shor's%5Falgorithm.svg)  
3:14 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fquantum%5Fprocessors>  
4:11 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJS62eIVxI>  
4:24 <https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8105/final>  
4:41 <https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards>  
4:53 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum%5Fcryptography>  
5:17 <https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/post-quantum-cryptography-introduction>  
5:27 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's\_algorithm#/media/File:Shor's\_algorithm.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s%5Falgorithm#/media/File:Shor's%5Falgorithm.svg)  
5:49 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's\_algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s%5Falgorithm)  
6:13 <https://mullvad.net/en/blog/post-quantum-safe-vpn-tunnels-available-on-all-wireguard-servers>  
6:15 <https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/>  
6:52 <https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage#post-quantum-encryption-adoption>  
7:02 <https://blog.cloudflare.com/pq-2024/>  
7:11 <https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/>  
7:15 <https://tuta.com/blog/post-quantum-cryptography>  
7:20 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ppd%5FRY-UE>  
7:30 <https://www.privacyguides.org/en/encryption/>