# The Future of Cybersecurity in the Age of Quantum Computers
## 7 Conclusions and Future Prospects  
Quantum computing (QC) is a nascent and rapidly growing field [37]. QC can potentially crack RSA and ECC algorithms, impacting almost 100% of encrypted Internet traffic. Businesses around the world are pouring in resources to further QC knowledge and practices. McKinsey predicts that the first-wave industries may start to significantly benefit from QC as early as 2025 [37]. As of now, quantum algorithms already exist for all major public-key cryptosystems, and it is only a matter of time before they are completely broken. There is an urgent need to counter the looming QC threat.  
Without the NIST PQC selection process, the candidate PQC algorithms could have raised very little attention and security scrutiny by cryptographers and mathematicians and would likely have ended up being used by the industry as proprietary encryption methods. It is of serious concern that many of the algorithms that have been cracked during the NIST tests are still in commercial use. For example, Rainbow is deployed by the ABCmint cryptocurrency [38], and SIKE is implemented by the AWS Key Management Service, Cloudflare, and Google [39]. The fact that so many post-quantum encryption methods have been cracked and none has stood the rigors of NIST testing reveals that it is time to explore alternate cybersecurity strategies.  
As the preferred business model that the quantum computing industry is moving towards is unquestionably QaaS, the possibility of the individual ownership of astronomically priced quantum computers by bad actors is virtually ruled out. This implies that the only way that an adversary can exploit quantum computing for malicious attacks on victims is through a subscription to a QaaS provider. Hence, the impending quantum threats to the Internet can be best dealt with by segregating all subscription-based quantum computing activities from the mainstream Internet by regulating the QaaS access, rather than attempting to protect each Internet-connected device individually from quantum attacks. The 3 SoC consortium is currently exploring such quantum sequestering possibilities to secure the Internet from the feared perils of quantum computers.  
Although the ZVC-powered 3 SoC network architecture is still under development as a potentially robust cyber-secure framework, its early dissemination among the cybersecurity research community will accelerate the process of its validation and standardization as an alternative to the existing vulnerability-prone legacy computing infrastructure that feeds a multi-trillion cybercrime industry. It will also open new possibilities to counter the recent PQC failures in preparing for an impending quantum threat. This paper will serve its purpose if it spurs enough interest amongst cybersecurity researchers and cryptographers in the critical evaluation of the encryption agnosticism of ZVC/3 SoC by testing and proving or disproving its quantum-safe hypothesis.  
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**Acknowledgments:** The author is grateful to [PERSON] and [PERSON] for their assistance in preparing this manuscript.  
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