Quantum cryptography implementation timelines must be shortened, industry CEO to tell Congress

Ahead of a Wednesday House congressional hearing examining the intersection of cybersecurity and advanced technologies, Eddy Zervigon, the CEO of Quantum XChange, said he plans to stress to lawmakers the cyber fault lines that can occur when AI and quantum computing converge.

“The first thing we're going to really talk about is with the advent of this advanced computing age — AI and soon to be quantum at some point — the combination is unlike anything that we've seen in the past, certainly as it relates to encryption,” Zervigon told Nextgov/FCW in an interview. “That's a whole new threat vector that we have no idea how it's going to roll out over time.”

The outcomes of pairing a fault-tolerant quantum computer with AI software are not definitively known, but experts like Zervigon are worried about the ramifications that combining advanced computing capabilities with AI algorithms will have ...