2025 is International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Joining TechCentral.ie editor Niall Kitson to discuss the state of the art are Marc O’Regan, EMEA CTO, Dell Technologies Ireland; Deirdre Kilbane, Director of Research, The Walton Institute; Donal Óg McCarthy, EMEA cloud and application security lead, Accenture; John Woods, CTO, The Algorand Foundation; John O'Donoghue, Equinix senior global solutions architect, and Prof Felix Binder, assistant professor in Quantum Science, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin.

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Quantum computing isn’t a far-off sci-fi threat. In a hybrid model (CPU + GPU + quantum), it could land within ~3 years—and that’s enough to break today’s
asymmetric cryptography (RSA/ECC/PKI) used for TLS/HTTPS and VPN key exchange via Shor’s algorithm. Result? Session keys exposed, mass decryption possible, and a risky “post-quantum gap” before new hardware/software are widely deployed.

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• Why asymmetric key exchange is the weak link for TLS/VPNs
• How hybrid quantum + CUDA-Q accelerates timelines
• Nation-states’ “collect now, decrypt later” strategy
• The painful window before post-quantum cryptography (PQC) rolls out
• Risks of client-side scanning and on-device AI
• NSA backdoors, PGP/Phil Zimmermann, and the San Bernardino iPhone case

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04:01 - Encryption and Apple Backdoors 
05:12 - Nation-states Racing for Quantum Computing 
08:35 - Jensen Huang's Hybrid Quantum Computer 
10:57 - The Threat of National Agencies 
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13:56 - Post-Quantum Cryptography 
17:58 - The NSA Collecting Data 
19:21 - The NSA and Encryption 
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#512: All Encryption Hacked in 3 Years?

A fascinating interview with theoretical physicist and quantum computing specialist Peter Rohde. Would love to make our chats a recurring segment.

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Science at the Local S02E07 Peter Rohde

Will Britain be first to build a really useful quantum computer? 

And why is Microsoft trying to tie knots in spacetime? 

Plus quantum Brexit, quantum news, quantum questions, the Stupid Qubit Adiabatic Award and a song about ion trap qubits. 

In this episode, we learn all about Microsoft's bid to build weird qubits that seem to be both Lego bricks and loom bands. Then we find out about NQIT, the UK's collaborative effort to build a quantum computer, as well as chatting to Professor Winfried Hensinger at the University of Sussex – who was inspired by Star Trek to build a warp-speed quantum computer for Britain. And Professor Simon Benjamin at the University of Oxford is back, along with Junior Research Fellow Dr Vera Shäfer, to tell us how the UK's on the verge of unveiling a modular quantum computer based on levitating ions in a vacuum and linking them up with light particles - and what it might be able to do. Or not.

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