Went to RSAC2026 expecting AI hype. Left actually scared about Q-Day for the first time
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Just got back from RSAC. You know how these things go, wall to wall with AI this, AI that, vendors slapping "machine learning" on a toaster. But the one thing that actually stopped me cold? IBM's quantum safe computing exhibit. Google just dropped a formal "Q-Day" warning that RSA and ECC, the stuff protecting literally our emails, bank accounts, VPNs, crypto, could get broken by 2029. I know quantum computers aren't there yet. But "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" is already a thing. Adversaries are literally scooping up encrypted data right now, sitting on it, waiting for the math to catch up. So that IBM hardware on the floor? Seeing it in person made me realize this isn't a theoretical problem anymore. It's engineering. They're actually building for post-quantum. Are we actually moving on this? Or are we going to be the generation that knew the deadline was coming and did nothing until it was too late? NIST already published the PQC algorithms. The standards exist. So why does it feel like nobody's in a hurry? Anyway. RSAC was worth it just for that wake-up call. Glad I saw the hardware. submitted by /u/hhakker [link] [comments]