Werner Vogels

That's the premise of quantum.

Well, the one thing that it then will be able to do really, really, really, really fast is decrypt.

And so anything that is, let's say, elliptic or the usual RSA encrypted kind of things that are perfectly fine now, because it will take way too long to decrypt, then will be decrypted with a snap of your fingers.

So the reason for the prediction actually is to put in people's minds that we need to start taking action now.

If we want to be protected five years from now,

from, let's say, the ability to decrypt anything that we have now.

Now, all the hyperscalers, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, whatever, we all have been building post-quantum cryptography.

We've been inserting that into our front end, and we're doing all of that.

Unfortunately, we're not the only players in this world.

There's lots of people with their own data centers still, with their colos, with their whatever, that will have a hard time protecting themselves.

That's one thing.

So really getting it into people's minds that they have to start taking action now if you want to be safe a number of years from now when these things become reality.

The other thing is that you can't just lean back right now because a lot of the breakings or data stealing or whatever you call it is basically data harvesting.

Nobody's interested.

Basically encrypted data is being retrieved and people don't try to decrypt it.

They'll wait till the machinery is there to be able to decrypt.

Well, your medical data now will be decryptable in a few years from now.

That's not cool.

I don't necessarily mean script kiddies or whatever.

It's really state actors.