Carmi Levy

Thanks for having me.

Well, originally, what they call post-quantum cryptography, the point at which quantum becomes capable of breaking current encryption standards, that was originally around 2035.

And so the thinking was that quantum computers would get so good by then that they would be able to break encryption within a reasonable time frame.

Because if you try to use a current classical computer to break most methods of encryption today,

it'll take hundreds of years for it to chew through all the math.

But throw a quantum computer at it because it's so much more powerful, it'll take minutes, hours, maybe even a couple of days, but it'll be much more possible, much more feasible.

And so Google essentially said, no, we're moving the goalposts.

Originally, we thought it was 2035-ish.

Now we're going to say it's around 2029.

Well, that's three years away.

So...

that's kind of frightening because now all of a sudden it kind of means we're moving a lot faster than we thought we were and we're going to get to this sort of jolt point for planet earth a lot sooner than we thought we would and that kind of got a lot of people's attention and they're starting to look at going well

if encryption as we know it dies three years from now, what else is there in order to keep our secrets safe, in order to stay secure online?

We don't have an answer to that just yet.

Yeah.

Retroactive decryption, basically.

Yeah, and not to freak anyone out, but how many data breaches are there?

How much exposure is there just because we're oversharing online and all that information is being harvested, scraped, and then stored somewhere, probably somewhere on the dark web, and it keeps getting added to on an almost daily basis.

and to be used for some theoretical future day when the technology is available to do more with it.

We're seeing that with AI now, that different data sets that are recorded from disparate sources, AI is able to consolidate them so that your password from one breach