Powerful Currents And Cybersecurity’s Dark Waters
Forbes October 21, 2024
Denis Mandich, CTO of Qrypt, a quantum cybersecurity company, and founding member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium and CQT.
It isn’t hyperbole to say AI and quantum computing are the technological rip currents dragging us swiftly into the black water. Just a few years before ChatGPT was first used to write malware and explain in detail how to exploit networks, this possibility was dismissed as fantasy. Quantum computing is in the reverse situation because the exact technique to break modern encryption has been known since the 1990s, but quantum computers haven’t yet reached the necessary scale. AI is now evolving expertise quickly in highly specialized domains previously inaccessible to only a few expert researchers. This encompasses quantum physics and...