[Verse 1] Michele Mosca gazed into tomorrow's maze Where quantum gates would shatter RSA's cage He calculated odds with mathematical precision When cryptographic shields meet quantum collision The timeline stretches thin between now and then When silicon dreams break encryption's pen [Chorus] Seven out of eight by twenty-forty That's Mosca's call, the quantum lottery Your secrets locked in mathematical vaults Will crumble fast when quantum power jolts Remember the fraction, eight divides to seven Current crypto's earthbound, quantum's digital heaven [Verse 2] Shor's algorithm sleeps in quantum cores Waiting to crack what classical computing ignores Factorization becomes a trivial game When qubits dance and entanglement takes aim The exponential speedup breaks the math we trust Prime numbers fall like castles made of dust [Chorus] Seven out of eight by twenty-forty That's Mosca's call, the quantum lottery Your secrets locked in mathematical vaults Will crumble fast when quantum power jolts Remember the fraction, eight divides to seven Current crypto's earthbound, quantum's digital heaven [Bridge] Post-quantum algorithms race against the clock Lattice-based and hash-based cryptographic rock Migration takes decades, planning starts today Before the quantum avalanche sweeps old keys away [Verse 3] Financial systems, military codes Government secrets on vulnerable nodes The assessment warns us, probability's voice Prepare for Y2Q, we still have choice Mosca's theorem echoes through cyber halls Quantum winter's coming, classical crypto falls [Chorus] Seven out of eight by twenty-forty That's Mosca's call, the quantum lottery Your secrets locked in mathematical vaults Will crumble fast when quantum power jolts Remember the fraction, eight divides to seven Current crypto's earthbound, quantum's digital heaven [Outro] The hourglass empties, silicon grains descend Quantum supremacy marks classical crypto's end
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