1、Capgemini Quantum LabY2Q:A JOURNEY TOQUANTUM SAFECRYPTOGRAPYA note on potential largest global migration programs since Y2KGireesh Kumar Neelakantaiah Julian van Velzen Jerome Desbonnet AuthorsCapgemini Quantum LabTable ofContentsY2K toY2Q01References12Factors influencinguncertainty around Y2Q06Chal

2、lenges and globaldevelopments around Y2Q08Furtherunderstanding of Y2Q03Opportunity forGlobal IT industries10Capgemini Quantum LabAlmost three decades ago,in 1993 an article titled“Doomsday 2000”got published in Computerworld,describing the Year 2000 problem or Y2K problem which is also known as the

3、Millennium bug.The Y2K issue originated from the 1960s through the 1980s,when memory and disk space was very expensive and limited.Ingenious computer programmers tried to save memory by representing four-digit year values with only the last two digits.But this clever method to save memory led to a s

4、erious problem when approaching the end of the century.It was difficult to predict how computer programs would handle year 2000,represented as“00”in computer programs.This potential malfunctioning of computer systems,known as the Y2K bug,caused anxiety among governments and organizations across the

5、world,fearing large scale collapsing of critical systems across sectors in the world.The problem did not only exist in enterprise computers,but also in computers used by factories,utilities,power plants,airplanes and other embedded and operational systems.Global pre-emptive business continuity effor

6、ts were put in place by governments and private organizations to update or upgrade computer systems,addressing the Y2K problem.Many of the governments across the globe established special committees to mitigate the problem and pass specific laws.For example,the US government passed the Year 2000 Inf