Industry committee  Thank you. I agree with all that was said, and I don't really have much to add.

Industry committee  Except that I agree there's not enough money, but it's a good start.

Industry committee  Not yet. It's going to be a while.

Industry committee  I'm sorry to interrupt, but please allow me to answer your question as well.

Industry committee  I'll do that. I'm sorry. It's just that Toshiba has been very seriously working on protecting medical data with quantum cryptography. I'll stop there.

Industry committee  That's a difficult question. The United States is our ally, of course, and they do good things—good research, good development. I don't think we can pretend they're not there. Yes, we should collaborate with them, not that we had a choice. Europe, as a whole, has a concerted eff

Industry committee  First of all, I wouldn't have any secrets to give away, because I don't have any privileged information about it. All I know is that the company is called Anyon Systems, and its slogan is We make quantum computers. I've had the opportunity a few times to listen to presentations

Industry committee  I have never rented anything like this. I personally have never experimented with an actual quantum computer. I know I could if I wanted to, but I never have. It is possible to rent time on a quantum machine from companies such as IBM and Rigetti. Several U.S. companies allow us

Industry committee  They could have retroactive access.

Industry committee  This is absolutely impossible. The important thing to understand is that it's too late. The information I'm talking about has already been stored by future wrongdoers. I'm not just talking about bad guys, because it could also be police. In any event, the information I'm talking

Industry committee  Yes. This is another myth that I want to debunk about security versus confidentiality, where security means law enforcement. This is a false debate. It's security against security, by which I mean that citizens have a right to privacy that outweighs almost everything else. I sa

Industry committee  I think the two worst abominations of computer science this century have been Facebook and Bitcoin. That's just my personal opinion. When I say Bitcoin, I don't mean that I have anything against anonymous cash, which I think can be used for bad things, but also for good things.

Industry committee  Sorry. To answer your question, some cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, as it currently stands, will completely bite the dust as soon as a quantum computer is available, for two reasons. One is that it uses, fundamentally, digital signatures, which as such is not necessarily broken

Industry committee  There are two answers. One is to use quantum cryptography, which is, again, provably unconditionally secure but requires infrastructure that may not be available for these applications. The other is to use different purely classical systems that are currently being developed. So

Industry committee  I'm sorry to interrupt—