Question 16721 — new technologies

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Mr. Aurélien Saintoul questions the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for artificial intelligence and digital technology, on the importance of anticipating the effects of quantum on current means of cryptography. Quantum represents a real challenge in all fields, particularly in computing. The first quantum computer functional could appear as early as 2029. However, such a computer would immediately make obsolete the current cryptography used by banks, armies, as well as many other sectors essential to the sovereignty of the nation. It is therefore entirely possible that a general copy of the Internet and the encrypted data circulating there could have been made by state actors or other malicious actors while awaiting the creating the quantum technology needed to decipher them. He asks him if the Government has foreseen this possibility and if it is working on a way to retroactively modify the cryptography of these online services and messaging in order to prevent quantum technology from being able to decipher certain communications or information sensitive to France.

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