# Google and Cloudflare set 2029 to swap encryption before quantum computers crack it

- slug: google-and-cloudflare-set-2029-to-swap-encryption-before-quantum-computers-crack-it
- date: 2026-04-15
- category: Quantum Computing

Google and Cloudflare just set 2029 deadlines to migrate away from current encryption after two papers showed breaking elliptic curve crypto needs far fewer qubits than previously thought. Enterprise migration takes a decade. Cryptocurrency has no switch to flip.

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