CoinWorld News reports that Andrew Gault, CEO of network infrastructure company Zerotier, said the cryptocurrency industry’s focus on the threat of quantum computing may be misguided. He added that the biggest risk may not be the cracking of Bitcoin wallet keys, but rather the encrypted authentication data currently transmitted between institutions and exchanges. Gault warned that attackers could adopt a “collect now, decrypt later” strategy—stockpiling today’s encrypted network traffic, authentication records, and digital signatures in advance, and then decrypting them once future quantum computing capabilities mature. He believes the security risks in the data transmission layer between institutions could become an even more serious challenge for future financial systems.