--- title: Why Standard Encryption Isn’t Enough: The Case for... description: Standard encryption (RSA, ECC, TLS 1.3) is vulnerable to 'Store Now, Decrypt Later' (SNDL) attacks, where adversaries harvest encrypted traffic today to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-standard-encryption-isn-t-enough-the-case-for-post-quantum-ai-infrastructure-security-sa9yfmonj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Standard Encryption Isn’t Enough: The Case for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security | daily.dev og:description: Standard encryption (RSA, ECC, TLS 1.3) is vulnerable to 'Store Now, Decrypt Later' (SNDL) attacks, where adversaries harvest encrypted traffic today to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-standard-encryption-isn-t-enough-the-case-for-post-quantum-ai-infrastructure-security-sa9yfmonj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sA9yfmonJ.png og:image:alt: Why Standard Encryption Isn’t Enough: The Case for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Standard Encryption Isn’t Enough: The Case for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Standard encryption (RSA, ECC, TLS 1.3) is vulnerable to 'Store Now, Decrypt Later' (SNDL) attacks, where adversaries harvest encrypted traffic today to decrypt it once fault-tolerant quantum computers arrive. AI infrastructure is especially at risk because Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic — carrying sensitive agent context — is often overlooked in security audits. The recommended mitigation is a hybrid cryptographic approach layering quantum-resistant algorithms like ML-KEM (Kyber) over classical ones, enabling cryptographic agility so algorithms can be swapped without full stack rewrites. Beyond securing the transport layer, teams must also guard against prompt injection and data poisoning at the payload level. A practical 2026 roadmap covers auditing MCP endpoints, deploying hybrid tunnels, and building for crypto-agility. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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