[Verse 1] In two thousand and seventeen, a mathematician spoke Michele Mosca shared his vision, made the future less opaque He calculated chances of a quantum breakthrough day When our cryptographic armor would just crumble away RSA and elliptic curves, the shields we trust today Would fall before quantum power in a computational fray The timeline that he gave us was a warning bell so clear The probability rising with each passing year [Chorus] One in seven by twenty twenty six One in two by twenty thirty one Mosca's theorem tells us time is running quick The quantum race has already begun Seven years, fifty percent chance Fifteen years, the die is cast Better start your crypto dance 'Cause the future's coming fast [Verse 2] Quantum computers use qubits in superposition states They can factor large integers at exponential rates Shor's algorithm waiting like a sword above our heads To break the math that keeps secure our data and our threads Public key encryption built on problems hard to solve But quantum parallelism makes those barriers dissolve The infrastructure that we built on computational cost Could overnight become a battle that we've already lost [Chorus] One in seven by twenty twenty six One in two by twenty thirty one Mosca's theorem tells us time is running quick The quantum race has already begun Seven years, fifty percent chance Fifteen years, the die is cast Better start your crypto dance 'Cause the future's coming fast [Bridge] Post quantum cryptography is our saving grace Lattice based and hash based schemes will take encryption's place NIST is standardizing what comes after RSA But migration takes time and we can't afford delay The theorem's not a prophecy, it's probability math A fifty fifty gamble on our cryptographic path So listen to Michele's words and heed the warning sign The quantum timeline's ticking and we're running out of time [Chorus] One in seven by twenty twenty six One in two by twenty thirty one Mosca's theorem tells us time is running quick The quantum race has already begun Seven years, fifty percent chance Fifteen years, the die is cast Better start your crypto dance 'Cause the future's coming fast [Outro] When quantum supremacy arrives at our door Will we be ready for this cryptographic war Mosca's theorem shows the path we need to take Quantum safe encryption for security's sake
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