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Q-Day Is the Wrong Deadline

The mistake is to treat quantum risk as a forecasting problem when it is really a problem of decision-making under uncertainty.

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Poonam Parihaar
Sep 28, 2026
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The quantum industry has spent years debating Q-Day » the point at which a cryptographically relevant quantum computer can break the public-key systems protecting digital communications, identities and software. The date matters. But it is the wrong deadline for most organisations.

No board can schedule investment around a date that remains fundamentall…

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