Network infrastructure company ZeroTier CEO Andrew Gault said that the cryptocurrency industry’s attention to the threat posed by quantum computing may be misdirected; the biggest risk may not be wallet key compromise, but rather the encrypted authentication data currently transmitted between institutions and exchanges. Gault warned that attackers may adopt a “collect now, decrypt later” strategy—stockpiling today’s encrypted network traffic, authentication records, and digital signatures in advance, then decrypting them once future quantum computing capabilities mature. He believes that security risks in the inter-institution data transmission layer could become an even more serious challenge for the future financial system. (CoinDesk)