Paper Title: Solving Quantum Computing's Impending Data Security Threat

Paper Abstract: It is widely recognized that today's mathematical foundations for asymmetric cryptography are ineffective in a Post Quantum Computing age. Thus, Quantum Computing threatens to devastate today's SSL/TLS methods and the entire Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) industry. Unfortunately, NIST's forthcoming 2024 solutions do not provide deterrence guarantees. Proactive change planning is clearly warranted. This discussion illuminates Quantum Computing's algorithmic data encryption threat and introduces a novel deterrent known as ShapeShift™ - an amorphous, antifragile, and evolutionary data encryption method that has deterministic chaos as its foundation. ShapeShift uses no large number factoring, exponentiation, or modulus operations. This renders Quantum Computing's superpositioning strength irrelevant on first principles. This math-free presentation is completely understandable by a general audience. It illustrates how ShapeShift's high-performance encryption ensembles enable CPU processing and encryption strength tradeoffs, allowing it to scale from sensor-based applications to cloud applications. A ShapeShift demonstration concludes the presentation.

Paper Author: W David Schwaderer, Principal, Smart Creative

Author Bio: W. David Schwaderer is the ShapeShift Ciphers LLC CEO where he invented the ShapeShift™ Cipher - a Quantum Computing resistant, antifragile data encryption method with a deterministic chaos foundation. David has 12 issued and pending patents involving a variety of system design and algorithmic methods. He has authored six commercial software programs for a variety of machine architectures using several different languages, dozens of articles, and eleven technical books that explain complex technology in approachable ways. Whenever possible, David presents at Silicon Valley enterprises such as Oracle/Sun, Intel, and Google, as well as universities such as Stanford, MIT, and the Naval Postgraduate School, immersing audiences in his favorite subject – innovation and its manifold surprises. He has delivered Flash Memory Summit and USENIX™ seminars on Erasure Coding, a subject he has also presented several times at leading Silicon Valley conferences and enterprises. David has a MS in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a MBA from the University of Southern California.