Phase 1: Foundation (Weeks 1-4)

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[Verse 1]
There's a storm coming fast, quantum clouds in the sky
Shor's algorithm breaking RSA, making old crypto die
While Grover cuts your keys in half, searching twice as fast
What we encrypt today, they'll harvest now and crack at last

[Chorus]
Fourteen hundred qubits for the breaking point
Six thousand more and every lock's destroyed
Fifty logical qubits, that's the magic number
Physical to logical, wake up from your slumber

[Verse 2]
Ion trapped particles dancing in magnetic fields
IBM's roadmap racing to a million qubit yield
Physical qubits fail and shake, need hundreds for just one
Logical qubit standing strong when error correction's done

[Chorus]
Fourteen hundred qubits for the breaking point
Six thousand more and every lock's destroyed
Fifty logical qubits, that's the magic number
Physical to logical, wake up from your slumber

[Verse 3]
RSA relies on factoring, products way too hard
But Shor can find those primes so fast, leaves security scarred
Bitcoin's curve cryptography, discrete logs keep it safe
Till quantum solves the puzzle fast, puts money in wrong place

[Bridge]
AES two-fifty-six becomes one-twenty-eight
When Grover cuts your keyspace down, don't hesitate
Lattice-based mathematics, hash trees standing tall
NIST has found the answers in two-oh-three through all

[Verse 4]
FIPS two-oh-four and five, post-quantum standards here
Lattice problems hard to solve, even quantum can't come near
Hash-based signatures climbing trees of cryptographic gold
The new defenses rising up, protecting young and old

[Chorus]
Fourteen hundred qubits for the breaking point
Six thousand more and every lock's destroyed
But lattice crypto saves the day, hash trees light the way
Physical to logical, we're ready for that day

[Outro]
Foundation set, the threat is clear, hardware racing fast
Crypto broken, defenses built, quantum future's vast

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