Scott Alldridge

So iMessage actually has some encryption services as well.

You really kind of want more end-to-end encryption anymore.

It's just even a standard.

Could you explain that for people that don't know what that is?

Yeah, so encryption is where it's basically using an algorithm, you know, some kind of a software program to basically turn data into a bunch of ones and zeros.

Mm-hmm.

When you get right down to it and different methods of types of encryption actually that are out there.

Some are stronger than others.

But being encrypted is basically just making garbly gook, if you will, out of all of your data.

So if it does get hacked or stolen, if they don't know how to de-encrypt or have the encryption keys, they won't know what the data is.

And they wouldn't have those if it's encrypted properly.

Totally, you know, and what's a little scary about that and, you know, pivot a little bit is this whole idea of quantum computing, right?

I mean, quantum computers are crazy what they can do.

And so there used to be like this standard, they used to call 256 bit, they still call it 256 bit encryption, a quantum computer.

And that is like a standard.

In fact, a lot of government, you know, compliance standards, NIST and some of these things, you know, CIS, the Center for Internet Security, they'll all say, you know, 256 encryption minimum, some 512.

A quantum computer can break that usually in less than seven days.

Holy crap.

And they're coming on right now, big time.

And so this whole PQC is what we call it.