Phase 1: Foundation (Weeks 1-4)

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[Verse 1]
There's a storm brewing in silicon halls
Shor's algorithm cracking our walls
Factoring numbers at quantum speed
RSA crumbles like autumn leaves
Grover's searching through encrypted vaults
Finding keys, exposing faults
Square root faster than we ever dreamed
Nothing's safe, or so it seems

[Chorus]
Fourteen hundred qubits coming for your keys
Six thousand more will bring you to your knees
Fifty logical will break what we believe
Harvest now, decrypt later, watch us bleed
Physical to logical, the bridge they're building fast
Current crypto won't survive this quantum blast

[Verse 2]
Ion traps and superconducting rings
IBM's timeline, the future it brings
Physical qubits, fragile and loud
Need error correction to stand proud
One million noisy becomes one clean
The ratio's harsh but the goal's pristine
IonQ's roadmap stretching ahead
While our defenses hang by a thread

[Chorus]
Fourteen hundred qubits coming for your keys
Six thousand more will bring you to your knees
Fifty logical will break what we believe
Harvest now, decrypt later, watch us bleed
Physical to logical, the bridge they're building fast
Current crypto won't survive this quantum blast

[Verse 3]
RSA depends on prime factorization
ECC rides discrete logarithm temptation
Bitcoin wallets built on elliptic curves
When quantum strikes, no protocol preserves
AES-256 becomes half its size
Grover cuts security before your eyes
Two fifty-six drops down to one twenty-eight
Symmetric crypto meets its quantum fate

[Bridge]
But hope emerges from the lattice maze
NIST standards lighting quantum-safe days
FIPS 203, 204, 205
Keeping future secrets still alive
Hash-based signatures, crystals arranged
Mathematical problems never changed
Lattice defenders standing at the gate
Post-quantum armor sealing up our fate

[Outro]
Foundation laid in these four weeks
Understanding what the future seeks
From threat to hardware, crypto's fall
To new defenses protecting all

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