Nathan hamlin, director and lecturer of the Mathematics Learning Center of Winona State University, is helping people cope with this kind of accident. He published a new paper in the Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, in which he explained that the generalized knapsack code can defeat hackers who use the next generation of quantum computers.
This paper clarifies some misunderstandings in the complex field of public key encryption, and provides a similar understanding basis for technical experts who will be entrusted to design new Internet security systems in the future quantum computing era.
"Designing a security system to protect data requires the efforts of experts in various fields who deal with numbers in different ways. Pure mathematics and applied mathematicians, computer programmers, engineers, etc. , will participate. To use it in real life, all these people need a common language to communicate so that they can make important decisions on how to protect online transactions and personal communications in the future. "
Prepare for the future.
Quantum computers run at subatomic level, which is hundreds of millions of times faster than silicon-based computers in theory. Hackers equipped with next-generation quantum computers can theoretically decrypt any Internet communication we send today.
In order to create an online security system that is more suitable for the future, hamlin and wilhelm weber, a retired math professor, renovated the previous version of the password in 20 15, and created a generalized knapsack password by replacing the digital representation (beyond the standard binary system and the sequence based on 10) that computers rely on today.
In this paper, hamlin explained the generalized knapsack cipher in plain language, which can be understood by computer scientists, engineers and other experts in the field of non-pure mathematics. Generalized knapsack cryptography provides a feasible and safe method to defend against hacker attacks of quantum computing by disguising data with more complex digital strings than 0 and 1 used by traditional computers.
The generalized knapsack cipher extends the binary representation on which computers operate today by adopting a series of digital representations other than 0 and 1, so that more attacks can be blocked, including those using the benchmark reduction method, which was used to crack the original knapsack cipher.
Hamlin hopes that his thesis "Numbers in Mathematical Encryption" can clarify the misunderstandings he encountered in his career, so that generalized knapsack cryptography can be developed and applied in the future.
"Quantum computing will change the way we process data. As a society, we must make important decisions on how to prepare for this change. Such a password can be applied to traditional hardware and can also prevent hackers from using quantum computer weapons. Faced with the possibility of quantum computing, I think it is time to seriously consider applying this password to business and communication. "