Could the cryptographic apocalypse be under five years away? Depends on whom you ask. But there are potential technologies like Interconnect that could speed up the race to 4,000 quality cubits.

Is there something you can do today to protect data with a long shelf life? Find out in this episode of The Post-Quantum World. I’m your host, Konstantinos Karagiannis. I lead quantum computing services at Protiviti, where we’re helping companies prepare for the benefits and threats of this exploding field. I hope you’ll join each episode as we explore the technology and business impacts of this post-quantum era.

Our guest today is involved in post-quantum cryptography, and as you guys know, when it comes to my view of what post-quantum means, it’s a proactive and a defensive kind of thing. We’re looking for quantum use cases all the time, but then there’s this idea of a quantum apocalypse: “Oh, no, all the encryption will break!” — that kind of thing. Our guest today is CTO of a company called Qrypt, and I know him from the Mid-Atlantic Quantum Exchange — we’re on a crypto group together — and I figured it would be great to have him come on and talk about what his company is doing and where post-quantum cryptography in general is going. With that, I’d like to welcome Denis Mandich. Thanks for coming on.