Quantum Jumps In Cryptography and Computing by Dan Conn

The future is quantum! Or is it?! Who knows?! We definitely do!? Right?! Since its genesis in the 1980s to the 433 qubit IBM Osprey arriving in November 2022, a long road has been travelled. Science fiction is becoming science fact. A new branch of computing with its own complexity classes, and computational quirks (but no quarks) means a whole new world for developers to explore. However, new complexities present new challenges and interesting claims which are difficult to verify and unlikely. Have we established quantum primacy? Are we in a world of quantum advantage? Why is it unlikely researchers have shown they can break RSA-2048 with only 372 qubits? Why does this mean we really need to get a handle on implementing NIST Post Quantum Algorithms right now?! This is what this talk aims to explain.