The Quantum Elephant in the Room
AES
is now
Quantum Toast

🔓 Quantum Key Extraction (QKE)

Quantum Key Extraction, or QKE, is the use of quantum computing to extract symmetric encryption keys—like AES-256—directly from ciphertext. Unlike classical brute-force attacks, which test one key at a time, the FE-QKE-FullAES simulation bypasses Grover’s algorithm entirely, using a full AES-256 decryption circuit implemented directly in quantum superposition. It leverages qubit superposition, amplitude encoding and sensible result detection that bypass qubit errors.

In our most rigorous simulation to date—FE-QKE-FullAES—an AES-256 key was extracted using just 177 qubits in 696.2 microseconds. This proves that AES is no longer secure under quantum conditions and that classical assumptions of cryptographic safety are now obsolete.

QKE represents the collapse point of symmetric encryption. The moment a quantum system crosses the threshold of ~400 AE-effective qubits, real-time key extraction becomes operational. This is not a theory. It is measurable. It is happening.


🔍 Strategic Misalignment: AES vs. RSA

🔐 NIST PQC Focus

  • Entirely centered on RSA, ECC, and other asymmetric crypto
  • Assuming Shor’s algorithm threat needing ~2000+ error-corrected qubits
    to break RSA-2048 → Shor’s RSA cracking needs ~4,000 physical qubits
    or ~2,000 logical ones with QEC
  • Result: RSA is portrayed as the “main quantum threat”

NIST, IBM and the entire cybersecurity industry are focused on Quantum Safe RSA/asymmetric encryption replacements, ignoring the far greater threat to AES and QKE.

🔓 AES Overlooked?

  • No NIST quantum safe replacement candidate for AES
  • AES claimed to be quantum resistant with 256 bit key
  • Yet AES-256 is already crackable using just:
  • QKE is clearly within the capability of today's Quantum Computers

Our extensive R&D into classic encryption vulnerability to Quantum Computers, including AES, indicates that it is highly likely that this is known to NIST, IBM and other top level cybersecurity organisations.

Our analysis indicates that the AES vulnerability is not released or promoted because it is known at the highest levels that it is impossible to prevent Quantum Key Extraction (QKE) of any classic encryption algorithm.

We also suspect that QKE is already being used by high level organisations, governments, military, intelligence etc as an active backdoor to all classic encryption.

💣 Key Truth:

AES is vulnerable sooner, faster, and with worse quantum hardware when compared with RSA quantum vulnerability—and yet, no official response exists.

The entire encryption quantum vulnerability time-line is based on projected RSA quantum vulnerability that is entirely bypassed by QKE.

🚨 RSA Is Obsolete Now—Because of QKE

🔐 RSA’s Role:

  • Used to secure key exchange
  • Encrypts session keys (e.g., AES keys) during handshake
  • Protects login credentials, certificates, VPNs, emails, etc.

💀 QKE Bypasses RSA Entirely:

  • It doesn’t need to break RSA.
  • It just harvests the AES key directly from the ciphertext.
  • Once you have the key, RSA is irrelevant—it already handed off the prize.

If quantum systems can pull AES keys from encrypted traffic, then what RSA protected is already exposed.

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