# Vinod Khosla predicts AI and quantum computers will break most encryption before 2030

> Original title: Vinod Khosla: AI models and quantum computers together will break most of today’s encryption before 2030.

- Source: Rohan Paul
- Published: 2026-11-05T21:03:27.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/nuqho3n7d8jt3gp76sdwmzaap
- Original: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2118449135137513842

## Summary

Vinod Khosla says AI models and quantum computers together will break most of today's encryption before 2030, with crypto the most vulnerable. He expects quantum computers to run Shor's algorithm well before 2030, and says China has been collecting encrypted data to read later. He argues post-quantum algorithms only buy 6 to 12 months, and that lasting security must come from quantum encoding.

## Post

Vinod Khosla: AI models and quantum computers together will break most of today’s encryption before 2030.

Says "crypto is the most vulnerable"

He expects quantum computers to run Shor’s algorithm well before 2030. At that point crypto and most of today’s security get cracked, and China has been collecting encrypted data so it can read it once that happens. 

He says the post-quantum algorithms being deployed now only make the math harder, which buys 6 to 12 months, and he expects most of them to break before 2030, with crypto the most vulnerable. In his view, lasting security has to come from quantum encoding, not from harder equations.

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