Your Android phone is already under attack — just not yet. The threat is a class of computers that don't exist at scale today but are coming fast, and when they arrive, the encryption protecting your banking app, health data, and trade secrets could unravel in hours.  Google isn't waiting. With Android 17, the company is rolling out what it calls a comprehensive architectural upgrade — one that spans from the silicon at boot time to the app you just downloaded from the Play Store. The changes, announced by Google's Android security team and first appearing in Android 17 Beta 3, represent the most ambitious cryptographic overhaul in Android's history. They're built around the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards finalized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which are specifically designed to resist the brute computational power of quantum machines. Why Your Current Encryption Is on Borrowed Time Today's public-key cryptography — t…
