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Recent developments in technology suggest that within the next one to two decades some form(s) of quantum computing device will become viable. Once such devices become generally available they will doubtless be employed by cyber-criminals to perform brute-force decryption tasks that were previously infeasible. This paper attempts to address the question of how digital forensic investigation techniques will need to develop in order to respond to the challenges posed by such future generation computing devices.
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Overill, R.E. (2011). Digital Quantum Forensics: Challenges and Responses. In: Park, J.J., Yang, L.T., Lee, C. (eds) Future Information Technology. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 185. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22309-9_13
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