Latest / Identity at the Center / #230 - Quantum IAM with Teresa Wu and Olivier Nora of Idemia
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- 0:05This is identity at the center. If it has anything to do with I
- 0:11AM, this is the go to podcast now your host Jim McDonald and
- 0:17Jeff Steadman. Welcome to the Identity at the
- 0:22Center podcast. I'm Jeff and that's Jim.
- 0:24Hey, Jim. Hey, Jeff.
- 0:26How are you? Not so bad yourself.
- 0:28I'm doing great. I have a question for you.
- 0:31Did you know we have the greatest listeners ever?
- 0:35Yes, I know that for a fact we do have the best listeners.
- 0:38It is a guaranteed fact. So I wanted to call out.
- 0:41I put out that message on LinkedIn about, hey, give us
- 0:44show topics. I wanted to, you know, do a
- 0:47shout out to Fred Patterson and the infamous Chris Power who I
- 0:52love that guy. I'm so glad we met him.
- 0:54And you should have seen the DM he sent me.
- 0:56It took me like 1/2 an hour to read it, but I'm going to throw
- 1:00out some of these topics for you and just, you know, first thing
- 1:04that comes to mind. So from Fred it was he wanted to
- 1:07talk about the importance of a data dictionary in terms of, you
- 1:12know, you're rolling out a new I M system in your company, having
- 1:15that data dictionary, what comes to mind?
- 1:19I guess I need more information. Data dictionary, meaning you're
- 1:23introducing new terms to the enterprise and people need to
- 1:25know like when you say authentication or IAM, what does
- 1:30that mean to the normal person? Or are we thinking something
- 1:32like behind the scenes that is like a, I don't know, metadata
- 1:36associated with data? I'm thinking that, yeah, usually
- 1:40when I use that term data dictionary, I'm thinking in
- 1:42terms of that back end. So you know, hey, the way we use
- 1:47title or you know, department code or something like that is
- 1:53common throughout the replication of that data.
- 1:57So maybe it's starting an authoritative source like an HR
- 2:00system going to your IGA system and then being replicated out,
- 2:04or maybe replicated in reverse, but that there's a common
- 2:08understanding of what business title means.
- 2:11Yeah, I like that topic. I don't think we've actually
- 2:13touched on that yet. It's sort of like that plumbing,
- 2:15right, Goes on behind the scenes kind of it's just assume
- 2:18sometimes that it's there. But anything that helps
- 2:21organizations get a line and how is the data being used and are
- 2:26we even sure it's being used in the appropriate areas?
- 2:27It's probably a good idea, yeah. And also, you know, just what
- 2:30came to mind. For me, it was like data
- 2:32governance. It's not only writing that data
- 2:35dictionary and throwing it out there and then we'll revisit it
- 2:37in five years when it it's not even being used anymore, but how
- 2:41do we keep it so that it's fresh?
- 2:43How do we keep it so that as folks are making changes to
- 2:46downstream systems, the impact of how they may be changing that
- 2:50metadata. You know if they're swapping out
- 2:52business system A with business system B, you know you're you're
- 2:56potentially taking on a whole new data dictionary for that
- 3:00application if you will. So I thought that was a great
- 3:04topic that I really think we should find an expert to come on
- 3:07the show and talk about. Another set of questions was
- 3:11from Chris Power and the first one he threw out there is ITDR.
- 3:15The real deal first thing you came to mind is like we've got a
- 3:18couple shows coming up to talk about ITDR but you know it's
- 3:23it's kind of burst onto the scene.
- 3:25So is it the real deal? I I you know, the first thing
- 3:29that came to mind for me was, you know, so are people actually
- 3:32deploying this and using it in the real world?
- 3:34Yeah, I mean, I think we've had a couple of conversations about
- 3:37since the past two. I'm thinking back to like
- 3:38Gartner last year where there was the talk about like what we
- 3:46had a conversation with head covets from Silver Fort, for
- 3:48example. Absolutely.
- 3:50Yeah, we definitely have talked about you know what it can do,
- 3:53what it what it does. I think when Chris sessions that
- 3:57the real deal is like are people actually putting this into
- 4:01effect in their environments, You know enterprises, like where
- 4:05is it on the hype cycle if you will?
- 4:07Yeah, so that was a good one. You know he brought up the our
- 4:11favorite topic roles. Then he made a comment that
- 4:15Nirvana is 1 role per identity. In other words like that's been
- 4:18the mantra. I know personally I haven't
- 4:21been. That has not been my mantra
- 4:23because I've I think definitely there is a legacy there where
- 4:28like I thought that at one time that was the goal as well, but I
- 4:32no longer think that. I haven't thought that for a
- 4:34long time. How about you?
- 4:36Yeah, I'm the same way. I don't think I've ever seen in
- 4:37real life. I think you can define you want
- 4:40room rule, pro, identity within an application maybe maybe that
- 4:44would make sense, but not across like an organization.
- 4:46Just I haven't seen anybody would be truly successful with
- 4:49it. Unless it's a very, very
- 4:52specific use case like, I don't know, retail or something like
- 4:56that, where it's like, oh, I'm, you know, a clerk or associate
- 4:59or whatever term you use, right to call your frontline staff.
- 5:02But even then, I think it's still pretty difficult to get
- 5:04to. I like the idea of it, but I
- 5:07just don't think it happens in the real world as often people
- 5:10want it to. I agree that's definitely but
- 5:13you know the the topic of roles kind of the the topic that keeps
- 5:16on giving. I mean we we called this roles
- 5:18with the center. I think we we have maybe even
- 5:22more listeners. OK.
- 5:24So the last one that I wanted to bring up from from Chris's, you
- 5:27know pages and pages of DM here was and I just like the way he
- 5:31wrote this. So it was new applications.
- 5:33The final frontier I am now sits on the front line of companies
- 5:37buying their new applications, sitting with vendors, pitching
- 5:41their wares and asking us what is your authentication and
- 5:45authorization strategy or I'm sorry with us asking that what
- 5:50is your authentication, authorization strategy and our
- 5:54universal translator must be busted as they look confused and
- 5:59on why they need to have one. The business is playing the role
- 6:02of Klingons, and they're mad that we are trashing their
- 6:06proposal for a new tool or making them realize that their
- 6:10new tool will be hard to manage once they get it.
- 6:13Either way, they're looking to fight.
- 6:15Well, I love the Star Trek references, and that would be a
- 6:17hilarious episode to see if you can hang with those because
- 6:20you've struggled with the Star Wars stuff in the past.
- 6:22I wonder if you're better at Star Trek.
- 6:24I'm definitely better at Star Trek, especially when we're in
- 6:26that in the lane of of The Next Generation.
- 6:31Okay. So if we stick to the next
- 6:32generation side, I like the idea of it because I think a lot of
- 6:35business, a lot of business counterparts for our IT brother
- 6:40not there, just love to toss things over the IT wall and say,
- 6:44Oh well, we bought this thing. You guys deal with it, right?
- 6:48And I think that they need to understand they have a hand in
- 6:49this a little more than maybe they've used to in the past.
- 6:53And sometimes that's organizational politics.
- 6:54Or it may be, but. Anything that brings down that
- 6:58wall between the business and I T really partnering and when I
- 7:01say ITI think I am as part of that as well is is really
- 7:05helpful. I think just the organization
- 7:06understands truly the risk and you know maybe trying to to
- 7:11tackle some of that shadow spend or shadow IT that sometimes
- 7:14exists with an organization. But yeah, it's, it always bugged
- 7:18me when you know, just gets tossed over that wall and say,
- 7:20okay, well, we bought this thing.
- 7:21You guys figure it out. Yeah, absolutely.
- 7:24And you know, I think these are the kind of topics that are also
- 7:27great to pick folks brains that I am conferences when we all get
- 7:31together. This episode is going to drop on
- 7:34September 11th. Jeff, you're going to be busy
- 7:37the week of September 11th. You're going to be at the
- 7:40Cybersecurity Midwest Summit. Want to tell us about that?
- 7:43Yeah, among many things. I'm traveling all pretty much
- 7:45all week, but it's the last chance if you're hearing this on
- 7:48September 11th. I will be on Thursday at the
- 7:51Cybersecurity Midwest Summit in Cincinnati, OH.
- 7:54It's put on by COM, Spark and CDO.
- 7:56I'll be part of the panel. They're talking about identity
- 7:58and access management. Part of there is Rs M's security
- 8:02and privacy risk consulting practice.
- 8:04So unofficially a working gig, you know, for for you and I, but
- 8:07I'll be there representing us as a kind of go through that.
- 8:10But if you're hearing this, it's probably your last chance to to
- 8:13to figure out if you're going to be able to make it out.
- 8:15Cincinnati, hopefully. You know, see some friendly
- 8:17faces or new faces come up and say hello.
- 8:20People always seem to gravitate towards you, Jim.
- 8:23When we're ever on site someplace, I don't know, maybe I
- 8:25just have, I don't know, an unfriendly face or something.
- 8:28But I have a fancy suit. I have a fancy suit.
- 8:31So. You just stick out.
- 8:32Yeah, I'm usually playing the counter and one with the radar.
- 8:36So yeah, definitely. Hopefully people come and see
- 8:39that. Yeah.
- 8:40And then you've got another. So the first week in October,
- 8:44you and I are going to be at different conferences.
- 8:46You're going to be at Identity Week, America.
- 8:48Yep. October 3rd and 4th Washington
- 8:50DC Identity Week America. I'm going to be hosting a panel
- 8:53discussion on pass keys. So I'm looking forward to having
- 8:55conversation about that. That's when we actually have a
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- 9:05the new conferences channel that's out there.
- 9:07So plug for the ID Pro conferences.
- 9:09Channel within Slack. I put some of this as well, but
- 9:12if you use the code ID AC30I DA C30, you get 30% off of your
- 9:17conference pass. And that code works for both
- 9:20Identity Week America and Identity Week Asia, which is
- 9:23also taking place later this year.
- 9:24So hopefully people are able to take advantage of that code
- 9:27because while I'm doing that you're going to be over at
- 9:29Octane. I'll be an Octane, I'll be
- 9:32there. And it's going to be a weird
- 9:34thing because I feel like every conference that we've been at,
- 9:37that I've been at in the last couple years, we've been
- 9:39podcasting. So we're going to be a part.
- 9:41I won't be podcasting, but I'm going to try something new.
- 9:44I'm going to use my iPhone video and see if I can capture
- 9:47something decent from a video perspective and if I can clip it
- 9:51together to make it look semi professional to give people a
- 9:55feeling for what it's like to be at the conference.
- 9:58That'll be for people who can't go to the conference or if
- 10:00really anybody can watch it. But for people who can make it,
- 10:03we've got a 30% off discount code as well.
- 10:07It's OKTNIDA C30. That's OKTNIDA C30.
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- 10:22official podcast of the Authenticate Conference which is
- 10:272 weeks later, October 16th through 18th Carlsbad, CA just
- 10:32north of San Diego. We've got a discount code for
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- 10:47receive a gift basket or gift bag.
- 10:50I don't know what's going to be in the basket or bag.
- 10:52It might just be pictures of us, Jeff.
- 10:55I hope not, because that doesn't sound like much of A sound, like
- 10:58much of A of a gift bag. So, like, more of a nightmare.
- 11:03Well, hey, we don't know. We we don't know.
- 11:06We're not making the bags. It could be a bag full of gold
- 11:10Nuggets like it could be. Yeah, Well, I think that's going
- 11:14to. Be a fun conference.
- 11:14Yeah, I mean the fact that we'll be up there doing a keynote,
- 11:16doing sort of a live show, it's it's going to be broadcast
- 11:20around the world streaming at the same time.
- 11:21So starting to put, you know, kind of how that's going to
- 11:24work, getting some logistics in place.
- 11:26And then of course you and I will be podcasting.
- 11:29Yeah, it's a good time. So hopefully people are able to
- 11:31take advantage of those discount codes.
- 11:32I'll have them in our show notes as well.
- 11:34So wherever you're catching this, you can hit the wherever
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- 11:39website idcpodcast.com. And click on any of our recent
- 11:42episodes and you should see all the kind of the links in there.
- 11:46Anything else we want to get out there for awareness sake?
- 11:49Or should we talk quantum? We should talk quantum.
- 11:52I mean, last week we talked cryptography, right?
- 11:54We did a crypto 1 cryptography 101 episode to kind of set the
- 11:59stage for today. So thanks for Andrew for that
- 12:01last week. And yeah, I think we're ready
- 12:03for this conversation today. Yeah, so let's why don't we get
- 12:07into it, cuz we've got a couple of guests, they're gonna help us
- 12:09today. We did start off the
- 12:11conversation last week with Cryptography 101.
- 12:13So if you need a kind of a a refresher on that, probably a
- 12:17good spot to start and then a spot to start, start to spot.
- 12:21I can't talk today, but go back and listen to that.
- 12:23That'll help with sort of setting the stage for this
- 12:25conversation around quantum computing and sort of its
- 12:28effects around identity and access management.
- 12:30First, we're going to introduce Teresa Wu.
- 12:33She is. With working on smart
- 12:36credentials for Idemia, Identity security in North America.
- 12:40She's joining us all the way from Vietnam and wanna welcome
- 12:44here to the show. So welcome to the show, Teresa.
- 12:47Thank you for having me, Jeff and Jim.
- 12:50Yeah. So thanks for joining us.
- 12:51We've also got Olivier, Nora, he's the Chief of Open
- 12:54Innovation for Idemia Enterprise division.
- 12:57He's joining us from France. Welcome, Olivier.
- 12:59Bonjo Bonjovatus, Hello. Welcome everyone.
- 13:02Onsure. So we're going worldwide today
- 13:04because we've got, I think, people in just about all the
- 13:07time zones that makes this a little more challenging for us.
- 13:11Thank you guys both for joining us.
- 13:13One of the things we like to do when we first have guests on our
- 13:16show is learn a little bit more about their identity, background
- 13:18and kind of understanding how do they get into the space in the
- 13:21first place. And I want, I'm curious, how did
- 13:23you guys get into the field of identity, Teresa, why don't we
- 13:26start with you? Can you tell us a little bit
- 13:27about your background? So since this bucket is gonna be
- 13:31going on on the September 11, so fun fact, I started my
- 13:36internship with a former entity of Idemia one month after after
- 13:42September 11 as a marketing intern for the Biometric access
- 13:48control terminal and payment terminal.
- 13:52Business group as a marketing intern and I fell in love with
- 13:57biometrics. I never left it.
- 13:59I think I was kind of traumatized, impacted by the
- 14:04event of September 11 and felt that the identity was sort of
- 14:11how biometric can secure or anchor the identity.
- 14:16And and that what's made me stay because of that, you know the
- 14:21the, the, the bigger picture I play.
- 14:24So I continue evolve from biometrics to other use cases
- 14:28vertical and the last couple years has been more and more
- 14:31focusing on identity and digital identity.
- 14:33Olivier, how did you get into identity?
- 14:36Oh, actually my first contact with identity was when I was 14,
- 14:40and in fact I had at home the first smart card ever produced.
- 14:45And I know very well the people who invented the smart card, and
- 14:48that was when I was a kid and in fact when I started working in
- 14:52IT for the past 20 years I've been in the security business,
- 14:55I've been working by Atos, by Kat, Gemini, then very full in
- 14:58the payment and then Idemia. And in fact identity is at the
- 15:02heart of all the security systems.
- 15:04And I saw all the development of malicious attack over the over
- 15:07the years, in particular with the development of the Internet
- 15:09starting in the 90s until 2023. And just for an example, when I
- 15:14was in Capgemini, my Rd. team used to work a lot on social
- 15:18engineering. And now do you take over
- 15:21accounts and enter into a company without even touching
- 15:24technology, but just by asking the right question and doing
- 15:26some service? Wow, so 14 years old.
- 15:30Smart cards. Did you?
- 15:32When did you realize you were an identity?
- 15:33Did you know it right away or did it take you a little?
- 15:37While I realized it when I was on the Minitel, you know the
- 15:39Minitel was an online system before the Internet in France.
- 15:43And that was the first time I faked my identity and said I was
- 15:46over 18. OK, so definitely not condoning
- 15:50that behavior, but yeah, I I get it.
- 15:52That's pretty cool. When I was 14, I was probably
- 15:55playing Nintendo and basketball and that's pretty much was my
- 15:57life. Teresa, your role has to do with
- 16:02smart credentials for a Demi, I guess.
- 16:05Tell us about what does that mean in the real world?
- 16:06What, what can people expect? You know what your day-to-day to
- 16:09look like. I have so actually in the.
- 16:12So I have actually kind of two response, a 2 rolling major role
- 16:19in in in this position. So number one, I'm the PNL owner
- 16:24of our smart credential business in North America, meaning the
- 16:29smart card business and the smart token business mostly.
- 16:33So if you are working for the federal government or as a
- 16:38contractor, as employee, then you.
- 16:40Know that the PIF card, the cat card and the tweak card, those
- 16:44are the card that that we manufacture or personalize for
- 16:49certain agencies And so that fall in my responsibility for my
- 16:55team to support them, deliver them.
- 16:59So that's the the core of my one of my core area responsibility,
- 17:07then the second responsibility I have.
- 17:10It's actually linked to digital ID.
- 17:12So right now I am the program executive sponsor for overseeing
- 17:17all the mobile driver license or the digital ID implementation
- 17:23for the state government level. So all the we call it MID, so
- 17:29the MDL deployment that you see in the state mobile driver
- 17:34license issuance. Those are the program that I'm
- 17:37overseeing right now with another team that I manage and I
- 17:42should we support the core team and make the digital digital
- 17:47delivery is really different. Digital identity is sort of a
- 17:50new thing. So that will be my second, my
- 17:54other role in my current job. So day-to-day, a lot of
- 17:57meetings, another back and forth with program team, engineering
- 18:02team and. And making sure that the the out
- 18:07mobile ID program get deploy and go as well and overcome
- 18:11challenges and and things like that.
- 18:13Interesting. I think I smell a second
- 18:15conversation that we need to do around mobile driver's license.
- 18:17I am an unabashed fan of digital attendees and trying to get
- 18:21things onto my phone and out of my wallet as much as I can.
- 18:24So hopefully North Carolina, someone's listening, gets on the
- 18:28MDL hype train and gets us going with that.
- 18:31Olivier, tell us, what about your role, chief for open
- 18:34innovation at Idemia on the enterprise division, What does
- 18:38that mean in the real world? Yeah, it means I'm in charge of
- 18:41open innovation for the enterprise sector.
- 18:43So Idemia actually has two main businesses, half of our
- 18:46businesses on government, half is on on the price.
- 18:50And as open innovation, it's in fact the idea of having to go
- 18:54outside in order to innovate. And my day-to-day life, in fact,
- 18:57is to understand new trends on the market.
- 18:59Speak with people. Understand how innovation can
- 19:02bring new value to the customers or how new challenges are coming
- 19:07up front of customers that we need to tackle together.
- 19:11And speaking about new challenges, the topic of today
- 19:14post Quantum is clearly a challenge that everybody would
- 19:17love to have escaped, but that is coming up to everyone.
- 19:21And then when I identify an innovation, and obviously you
- 19:25never know if it's a real innovation, a fake one, you have
- 19:27to try and make mistakes. Then my goal is to lies with
- 19:31partners, with clients in order to build, offering to understand
- 19:34innovation, to merge all the building blocks that are
- 19:38necessary to overcome the challenge or bring the value and
- 19:41to maintain a network of innovative partners, pilot
- 19:44clients, key stakeholders and also a lot of evangelization on
- 19:48the market like this podcast is doing.
- 19:51And speaking about post quantum, post quantum is typically at the
- 19:55heart of this open innovation because it's a challenge that
- 19:57will impact everyone. And which needs an industry
- 20:00move, not not a single company will solve it.
- 20:02We need to move all together in order to protect the citizens,
- 20:06to protect the governments and the companies against that
- 20:08threat. So I'm glad you brought that up
- 20:09because I I sat through your presentation at Idanaverse and I
- 20:14was like, oh, we gotta get these guys on the show kind of talk
- 20:17about this. We haven't really gotten to the
- 20:18quantum topic very much real quickly though.
- 20:21Teresa, for people who aren't familiar with Idemia, can you
- 20:25give us kind of like the 30 to 62nd elevator ride of what you
- 20:29guys do? Because my familiarity comes
- 20:31from the TSA line and going through Global Entry and things
- 20:35like that. I always see the Idemia name on
- 20:36some of the the products are out there, but I'm sure there's more
- 20:39to it than that. So Olivia, Olivia's earlier
- 20:43already start talking about how Idemia is organized.
- 20:46We have actually two major business unit.
- 20:49We have the enterprise business unit serving the private sector.
- 20:54And then we have another business focus for government
- 20:59and in the private sector, we provide our based on our
- 21:05cryptography technology, we provide banking cards,
- 21:11personalization services to the banking sector and also to the
- 21:17mobile operator for connecting connectivity services.
- 21:22So that's. Basically your mobile phone, the
- 21:25SIM card, your mobile phone, the E SIM services, that's where
- 21:29Idemia provides services to. And then wherever it's in your
- 21:33wallet, the EMV chip, smart card based banking cards, that's also
- 21:40what Idemia provides. So that's all the private sector
- 21:43and in the government we do everything from biometric
- 21:47identification system to identity documents to border
- 21:51security solution to what you see at the TSA checkpoint, every
- 21:56everything that touch identity document, biometrics, those are
- 22:00sort of our core competency in addition to system I would say
- 22:06analytics and solution and beef book solution that we provide to
- 22:10government. So ensure that's what we do.
- 22:13That's great. So, Olivia, I'd like to take the
- 22:16topic of quantum computing. Such a complex topic, and I'm
- 22:21not even sure I really have my arms around exactly what it
- 22:25means. So can we start with kind of a
- 22:27basic explanation of what it is and how it differs from
- 22:32computing today? So you said we would start hard.
- 22:35So we're gonna start hard. In fact, Jim, maybe for everyone
- 22:40to understand, a quantum computer is not a computer that
- 22:44is going faster. In fact, it will not replace our
- 22:47current computers. It's a computer that works
- 22:50differently, and instead of doing mathematical computation,
- 22:55in fact it will rely on a physical phenomenon to solve
- 22:58some problems, some of which are easy to solve with quantum
- 23:03computing, but maybe in order to be more.
- 23:06More easy to understand. I will take an example of the
- 23:10optical computer. You remember the optical
- 23:12computer we had in the early 2000s.
- 23:15Everybody was saying the optical computer working with light will
- 23:19replace the traditional computer and will completely blow the
- 23:24computation power that we will have.
- 23:26And today nobody speaks about the optical computer and yet the
- 23:29optical computer is everywhere. All telecommunication networks
- 23:33are using optical computer. How is it in fact, the mistake
- 23:37was to think that you could replace the classic computer.
- 23:40What you do is you do some functionality much faster.
- 23:44And I will give you a very simple one which is routing,
- 23:47sending a packet from A to B. When you do it with optical
- 23:51computer, let's say you are on a fiber wave and you are on the
- 23:54fiber wave color blue. So you're coming with a blue
- 23:57color and you want to send it to another fiber with a red color.
- 24:02What you do? Is you place a blue filter in
- 24:05front of the first color, so you just extract the blue color.
- 24:08You put the micro mirror, so just small mirror, a nano mirror
- 24:12that would bounce the light from one fiber to the other one.
- 24:15And then you put a new filter which is a red filter to put it
- 24:19in red. And in fact with two filters and
- 24:22a mirror, a nano mirror, you're able to route a packet much more
- 24:26efficiently than a traditional computer.
- 24:29In fact, quantum physics is the same if you.
- 24:32Take a very simple problem when you when you think of it the
- 24:36basic problem of cryptography which is finding the prime
- 24:40numbers that multiply by themselves give another number.
- 24:44Let's take 1515 is 3 * 5. That's easy everybody everybody
- 24:49knows that 15 is 3 * 5. Now if I give you 1000 digit
- 24:54number and ask you what are the two prime numbers that multiply
- 24:58by each other, give this one. This is a very, very, very
- 25:02difficult problem to solve, and in fact mathematicians have
- 25:05proven that the only way to find these two numbers is to do brute
- 25:09force, to try everything and to try everything, every single
- 25:13number. That's what we call a very
- 25:15complex problem where there is no mathematical solution to
- 25:19solve that problem. The issue is that there is a
- 25:23quantum physics solution which is with the right quantum
- 25:26computer, with the right disposition of your atoms.
- 25:30You can input 15 at the at one hand and then automatically the
- 25:37quantum physics will produce at the output of the side 3:00 and
- 25:415:00 and that works for every number.
- 25:43So in fact it's a very complex mathematical problem that the
- 25:48quantum physics solves in a different way.
- 25:51So quantum computer in fact takes these type of problems and
- 25:54solve it without having to do any computation or any
- 25:57mathematical reasoning. Which is the reason why it's
- 26:01dangerous for cryptography, Because cryptography was looking
- 26:04for problems you can't solve. And some of these problems we
- 26:08forgot or we didn't know at that time that the quantum physics
- 26:11could solve it, because it's not a mathematical reasoning.
- 26:14And so the future quantum computer will not replace your
- 26:18computer, but will solve some problem differently than the way
- 26:22classic computers are doing it. Now you can ask me but if.
- 26:27A quantum computer can break cryptography because the quantum
- 26:31physics knows how to do. How do we protect ourselves from
- 26:33such powerful computer? In fact, it's a little bit like
- 26:38a Canon on a shooting stand. You know, for security reason,
- 26:42the Canon shoots in One Direction, and if you are
- 26:44sitting between the Canon and the target, you are at danger.
- 26:48So the best way to protect yourself is to go out of range.
- 26:53I said the quantum computer can solve some problem but doesn't
- 26:56know how to solve all problems. So if it happens, which is
- 27:02unfortunate but true that the fundamental problem of
- 27:05cryptography are solved by quantum computer, the way to
- 27:08protect ourselves is to change the problem to take something
- 27:11that the quantum computer cannot do.
- 27:14And so everything we are going to speak about is because
- 27:17quantum computer know how to solve prime.
- 27:20Number of multiplication the 15 is 3 * 5.
- 27:23The quantum computer knows how to solve it.
- 27:26However, some of the problems the quantum computer cannot know
- 27:30how to solve it. So we are safe on these
- 27:31problems. That's a great explanation.
- 27:35I think it clears up a lot. One thing I'm thinking of, what
- 27:39I've heard is these quantum computers are very rare.
- 27:42They're, you know, and they're going to be very expensive.
- 27:45You never have a quantum computer in your.
- 27:48Phone like I think what you're saying is it doesn't replace it.
- 27:52Do you have to have a quantum computer?
- 27:54Do you have to have physically have one in order to do these
- 27:59prime, prime, multiple, prime quantifications that you're
- 28:04talking about? In fact, that's the problem of
- 28:07quantum computer is that in order to break cryptography,
- 28:11most of the cryptography rely on the root certificate.
- 28:15You know the trusted authority. Somebody needs to be trusted and
- 28:19then everybody is using that trusted authority to say I am
- 28:23Olivier and I prove you that I'm Olivier because this trusted
- 28:26authority has signed my ID document.
- 28:30Now if you get the certificate, the public certificate of this
- 28:34trusted authority, so the public information, that will help me
- 28:39check that I am Olivier and you just run it once into a quantum
- 28:43computer just once. You get the private key of the
- 28:47public authority and you are the master of the world.
- 28:50You can reforge identity, you can change everything.
- 28:53So the only thing that it needs in order to attack modern
- 28:57cryptography is a single access to 1 quantum computer, which
- 29:03probably will be on SAS, on the Internet, in the cloud, and
- 29:06which could probably be everywhere from governments or
- 29:10anywhere. So the thing we are trying to
- 29:13protect ourselves from is somebody.
- 29:15Getting access to a quantum computer.
- 29:17A quantum computer. It's a cylinder of two meters by
- 29:19two. It's not a big equipment.
- 29:22Anybody who can get access for one single transaction to
- 29:25quantum computer can get the master key and be the king of
- 29:28the world, okay. So if that doesn't appropriately
- 29:30scare people, I don't know what does.
- 29:34There's this concept of Y2Q, which I believe is probably a
- 29:37spinoff of Y2K and the 2 digit date problem that we had well 23
- 29:42years ago. Teresa, that term Y2Q is coming
- 29:47up more frequently. Can you explain what it is?
- 29:49Do I have it right? And when should I hit the panic
- 29:52button? Wow.
- 29:55So I think when we really stage it really well about the when is
- 30:02Y2QY2Q is the moment when you have one single quantum computer
- 30:09made available. Be powerful enough to break the
- 30:12modern cryptography that we we rely on today.
- 30:17That's the right to queue date. We don't know when, right?
- 30:22But it we one thing for sure that we know it will have
- 30:26dramatic and serious consequences when the quantum
- 30:32computer it's able to break the asymmetric cryptography as we
- 30:37know today. So because with that we can
- 30:40force new certificate, we can modify software update, we can't
- 30:45even change identity of records and accessing confidential
- 30:50information that's protected today, right, It's encrypted
- 30:53today, but by breaking the key, you have the private key to
- 30:59decrypt that confidential information.
- 31:02So it has, I would say, serious. Significant impact in our system
- 31:10today. In example, think about your
- 31:13banks today in order for a consumer to log in the you
- 31:20reached the official banking website.
- 31:22The bank store certificate on the website allows you to
- 31:25connect with a secure connections.
- 31:28Once we grab that public key, a malicious actor can basically.
- 31:36Replicate the private key and set up a mirror website and you
- 31:40will not be able to tell that that is the legitimate or
- 31:43illegitimate banking site because it looks basically the
- 31:46same and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
- 31:48I mean, that's a very elaborate form of social engineering, you
- 31:51think about it. It's a very, almost very
- 31:54difficult to tell phishing attack, right?
- 31:57Yeah, exactly. So that's where, and like what
- 32:01Olivia said, a mind actor can. Just use the quantum computer
- 32:08once to generate that that banking site by by finding that
- 32:14private key. It doesn't have to be
- 32:18instantaneous, right? They can just take the time to
- 32:21find it and then build that website and build that phishing
- 32:24attack. So be more and more elaborate,
- 32:26very difficult to tell the cipher phishing attack.
- 32:29We do nothing today. So the Y2Q is.
- 32:36Similar to Y2K because things going to break.
- 32:39However Y2K at least predictable we knew when was that happen is
- 32:44in the year 2000. It's a clear date in mind Y2Q.
- 32:48We don't know when. We just know the circumstances
- 32:53that will happen right when what that means Y2K leads to maybe
- 32:59accidents, errors in the system, but it's not fatal in Y2Q.
- 33:05I just give the the, the example, the bank it can open
- 33:08doors to lots of militias or fraud fraudulent use of what we
- 33:14our system that we rely on today.
- 33:17So, so that's where we need to stop preparing for because we
- 33:28actually with right to queue, everyone's vulnerable.
- 33:32If we don't start looking at how to migrate and like what Olivia
- 33:37said, moving ourself away from the zone of attack, that's the
- 33:41focus for what we need to do before.
- 33:45Why 2 Q happens? So we can't tell when it's gonna
- 33:48happen, Oblivia. I know that there are companies
- 33:52out there that have quantum today already, IBM, Google, I'm
- 33:56sure others, governments, etc. I guess how do we define this
- 34:01transition? Is it a gradual transition where
- 34:04it just kind of all this, you know, it just kind of happens
- 34:06over time or is it bang it just happened and we didn't know it
- 34:11or maybe it's happened and we don't know it yet?
- 34:13Like what are your thoughts on that?
- 34:15My thought on that is, is, is we are, you know, like in these
- 34:18movies where you have a ticking bomb and you don't really know
- 34:22when it will set off, but you know at one point it will.
- 34:25And the only thing you're thinking of is I want to get out
- 34:27of this room. I want to get out of this room.
- 34:29So as we said, you need one access to a quantum computer to
- 34:34retrieve any private key. So if you are a company and you
- 34:37have an R&D department with all your secrets and patents and
- 34:40secrets industrial secrets, you competitor just needs one
- 34:46private key, one access to one of your public certificate to
- 34:49get your private key, and to get his private key, it's one access
- 34:53to a quantum computer, which is not very difficult to do.
- 34:56And once you get that key, the rest is classic attack.
- 34:59You just have the key for the mentor.
- 35:03And now the issue you have is probably they will not tell it
- 35:07about you. They will not tell you, hey, I
- 35:08have the key, probably they will copy everything, they will do
- 35:11the things and you will not even know about it.
- 35:14So it's something that is going on where the risk is actually
- 35:18increasing over time because unfortunately the quantum
- 35:21computer provider are holding the promise they did.
- 35:24Some forecast on when they would be ready, and up to now most of
- 35:28them are following the quantum rules.
- 35:30They are following the law. Now the question you might ask
- 35:34is OK, but when shall I move? When is the risk for me too high
- 35:39or too bad? This is actually the wrong
- 35:41question, because the real question is when will Security
- 35:44Agency, the sizer, the niece, the NSA, the NSA in France?
- 35:49All the security agencies, Government security agencies?
- 35:52When will they mandate the change?
- 35:54Because they will assess that the risk is too high and they
- 35:58will force everybody to migrate. And the issue is that when they
- 36:01mandate the change and everybody will have to do it as fast as
- 36:04possible. And the people who are not
- 36:06prepared will not be able to match the requirements that is
- 36:10imposed by the government for national security reasons.
- 36:14And we are in identity here. I have another bad news, which
- 36:19is most probably the first system you would like to move is
- 36:23the Identity Management System because that's the one at the
- 36:26heart of all security systems. So even if you say OK, I want to
- 36:30see what I migrate first, I want to migrate first my most secure,
- 36:34most confidential part and then the other one later.
- 36:39Most probably your IM, your IM systems are in this.
- 36:43Part in this kernel, of course systems that you need to protect
- 36:47absolutely. I think This is why we would
- 36:49like to end the podcast on a lighter note, because this is
- 36:53some scary stuff. But you know that the whole
- 36:57thing I think we focused so far on was the ability to for
- 37:01Quantum to really threaten the way cryptography is done today.
- 37:06I'd like to bring it back to the, you know the the main.
- 37:11Topic of this podcast Identity and Teresa asked you what
- 37:16problems does quantum computing pose to the field of identity.
- 37:21Wow. You know, with zero trust, we
- 37:24starting to realize right when you want a good security system
- 37:28identity is like literally no pun in the at the center.
- 37:32You have to make sure you know who you're dealing with right in
- 37:36your network, in your system, in your access of information.
- 37:39So now with quantum computer, it definitely impact the identity
- 37:44management system in two ways. It can compromise your user
- 37:48identity. You don't.
- 37:50Can you really trust that user identity that you created even 5
- 37:55days ago? Is that still trustable right.
- 37:58And then it also compromise the access, it can reach the access
- 38:02management piece. So you have you talk about IM.
- 38:06It can compromise the identity of the users.
- 38:08It can also compromise the access management of the system.
- 38:13So it it have in you look at the user identity side, the identity
- 38:19proofing, Can you retrust that event?
- 38:22Can you trust that user authentication event?
- 38:25Can you retrust the account recovery event and decentralized
- 38:29identity? When it's when the identity is
- 38:32decentralized manager of the edge and it's secured by the
- 38:36cryptography? Can quantum computing all these
- 38:42I will say things that we trust before we going to have to learn
- 38:46and find a way to trust they got protected so we can trust it
- 38:49again. Then with the Bridge Assessment
- 38:51Assessment Management, it will impact the trusted authority,
- 38:55the session authentications on the, on the software, on the, I
- 38:59would say the software side, on the coding side, but also on the
- 39:02hardware side. Because when you have access
- 39:06management, it's not just logical access control, the
- 39:08digital access but also the physical access and the
- 39:13equipment that you use to do access control the equipment
- 39:16they use for authentication can be can be broken as as well.
- 39:21So and the digital signature that we rely upon.
- 39:25So yeah, all those gonna, I would say have.
- 39:31What it means for identity management with the impact for
- 39:35what it posed as a threat to identity, the fuel identity
- 39:39itself. So I'm sorry I'm giving you like
- 39:43hope here, but it's pretty scary.
- 39:46It is scary and I think I love the answer because you mentioned
- 39:50the word a couple of times. Trust.
- 39:54Our entire concept of Identity and Access management is based
- 39:59on the concept of. Trust and when you have a
- 40:04breakdown in your ability to communicate and to encrypt
- 40:11messages, how can you? You can't trust the underlying
- 40:15technology, how can you have trust between organizations or
- 40:20that processes are going to hold tight, right?
- 40:22So I think this this is a potentially a direct attack at
- 40:27trust, which is the fundamental concept in identity.
- 40:31Do you want to follow up on that, Theresa?
- 40:33Correct. I think that's why we started.
- 40:35Olivia and I started to evangelize on.
- 40:38We start preparing. We need to build a new paradigm
- 40:41on how to trust by, by, by prepare for the arrival of
- 40:48quantum computing by using cryptography.
- 40:51That quantum computer I'm not good at solving, but by greeting
- 40:55to a new kind of cryptography technology takes time.
- 41:00You know I think a lot people mentioned short to migration was
- 41:03painful and take forever. We don't have that time to take
- 41:07the luxury to take forever. So we need to start preparing
- 41:10you now do to do that. So I think the the it's not all
- 41:15like last, but we definitely need to start working on it
- 41:18because the ticking time bomb is here.
- 41:21Yeah, that's a great point. It's planning to or failing to
- 41:26plan is planning to fail, you know.
- 41:28But sometimes the only things, time, things change for people
- 41:32is when we're facing an immediate threat or the threat
- 41:36has taken place and say, oh, now we actually have to do something
- 41:40about it. But that's why we have the
- 41:43podcast. We're we're hoping to shine a
- 41:46little bit more light on this. So I wanted to ask Olivier, what
- 41:52types of roles or subdisciplines in the I M field should be most
- 41:57concerned with about the the all the threats we've been talking
- 42:02about related to quantum? And do you think it's like the
- 42:05authentication side or you know, the hashing of passwords and
- 42:10those being taken and published on the dark web, What are the
- 42:14areas that you know, specific areas that concern you the most?
- 42:19Yeah. Maybe to to to have a positive
- 42:22note on this topic I will not speak about.
- 42:25All what the IT vendors, so our sales people supplying IAM
- 42:29software and others are doing because obviously all the IT
- 42:32sector in the security business is working very, very fast to
- 42:36face a threat and to provide tools and equipment in order to
- 42:43solve and to protect our customers and governments and
- 42:46citizens against the quantum computer.
- 42:48What I will be focusing here is for an IAM user, somebody using
- 42:52these technologies. What feel are concerned and if
- 42:56we speak about priority in IAM, there are actually 4 domains
- 43:00that will be first impacted. The first one is Authentication,
- 43:04access management, PKI and digital signature.
- 43:08For all of these, there are bricks that are being built by
- 43:12vendors in order to migrate to post control.
- 43:15However, there is a challenge we didn't speak about here which.
- 43:19Will be another nightmare and we'll see that this needs to be
- 43:22tackled upfront and understood through proof of concepts and to
- 43:26preparation, which is crypto agility.
- 43:29If I take current cryptography, whether I take RSA, RSA was
- 43:34introduced in 1970s, It's something that was developed
- 43:37early 20th century, elliptic curve, had over 60 years of
- 43:42experience and and and and lessons learned.
- 43:46But these were very stable algorithm developed over time,
- 43:50proven implemented. And I would say most of the
- 43:54people listening to us today know RSC and ECC has very stable
- 43:59algorithm and protocols and very unvulnerable algorithm except
- 44:05against quantum computer. The new algorithms that are
- 44:08coming up actually completely at the opposite, they are very new.
- 44:11We are developing them in a hurry doesn't mean they are not
- 44:15safe. It means that they will probably
- 44:18need to be tuned, adjusted, they will have vulnerabilities, they
- 44:22will have issues when we first release them that will force
- 44:26people to update them all the time on the field.
- 44:31We are entering a world which is called crypto agility, which is
- 44:34that instead of using building blocks that are very very solid,
- 44:38we are now on the boat with a sea of algorithm.
- 44:42And the boat is moving, so you need to constantly update the
- 44:45algorithm when a vulnerability comes up or when something new
- 44:48that we didn't know is discovered.
- 44:50That's because this algorithm and when we speak about crypto
- 44:54agility, it means that obviously for people who are using IAM
- 44:58systems, you need to set up a multidisciplinary team in order
- 45:02to manage your project and the migration over time.
- 45:05But you need also to introduce a new role, which I would call
- 45:08crypto asset manager, which is somebody.
- 45:12A leader that on the long run will own and watch and manage
- 45:17and maintain all the crypto assets of the company.
- 45:20Which is actually a positive sign because everybody in the
- 45:23security business knows that When you don't know your crypto
- 45:26assets, when you don't know where your cryptography is used,
- 45:29it's a bad sign for security because if you have a weakness
- 45:33somewhere, you might not know it, but the hackers will know.
- 45:36Now here you need to have somebody to maintain and update
- 45:40Everything Everywhere and I will just give an example.
- 45:43It means that you need to maintain and to keep up to date
- 45:46all your corporate employee badges, which today nobody
- 45:50maintains because they are set and that's fine.
- 45:52In the future you need to update them.
- 45:54Corporate badges, Fido keys, all your critical devices, equipment
- 45:59on the factory, equipment in trucks.
- 46:01Everything needs to be managed to be up to date in terms of
- 46:05vulnerability. And that's what's called crypto
- 46:08agility and crypto asset manager.
- 46:10This is a brand new role which goes way beyond technology.
- 46:14It's really a role that is a business role that is new to
- 46:17IAM. And that's one of the reason why
- 46:20we really advocate to anticipate and to prepare not only from the
- 46:24technology side, but to understand what it means to all
- 46:27maintain all these assets in the company.
- 46:30Are we gonna need new technologies to support this or
- 46:33is that crypto agility something that you think is existing
- 46:39vendors are going to either support or have to support to
- 46:43keep alive in this? Where do you see that going,
- 46:46Olivier? We need new technologies like
- 46:48algorithms and new architectures, but I would say
- 46:52IT vendors, IETF, GSMA, all the professionals in the security
- 46:57business are working on them. These technologies are much more
- 47:02advanced than what we used to do and they are not plug and play.
- 47:05So everybody's looking at understanding what is the most
- 47:08convenient, how to use migration path plus most probably every
- 47:12case will be a little different and we will most probably learn
- 47:16how to apply these new technologies for the next 10 to
- 47:1915 years. That's why, in fact, what we
- 47:23really need is not really a silver bullet.
- 47:25That would be a technology. But we need a process we need.
- 47:29Companies that are facing this migration to set up a team that
- 47:33will learn. A multidisciplinary team that
- 47:35will learn about these new technologies and how to apply
- 47:38them. And most importantly get the
- 47:41whole on the crypto assets in order to implement crypto
- 47:44agility. Know where they are, maybe
- 47:46centralize them or better organize them so that they are
- 47:49easy to change and make sure that cryptographic algorithm and
- 47:53crypto asset. Are part of the vital assets of
- 47:57a company because that's the assets that will make this
- 48:00company safe against hackers. That's it.
- 48:02That sounds pretty easy to me. I would you like to end on a
- 48:06light note because I feel like this has been pretty deep
- 48:09conversation in the multiverse of identity as I think we'll
- 48:12probably have to start calling it.
- 48:15I know that we kind of talked about before we hit record some
- 48:18of the things that we that we do and we're not solving Quantum's
- 48:21identity challenge. And one of those is cooking.
- 48:24Teresa, if you have to prepare one meal to impress somebody,
- 48:30what are you going to make? So for those who don't know,
- 48:33actually I did. I did spend some time my
- 48:35formative year in France. So I would, I like to prepare my
- 48:41version of French bougueno, beef bougueno with a very with a
- 48:47based on a very nice bottle of red wine.
- 48:49So I would sort of feel like spin on it.
- 48:53To impress my guests and then finish it off at dinner with we
- 48:58very nicely presented with cleanly slide French apple tart.
- 49:04So that's gonna be my go to if I have to impress like.
- 49:09My guest. Okay.
- 49:10Well, I'm impressed just hearing about it.
- 49:11So I have yelling at do you have a specific wine that you paired
- 49:16that you mentioned a red, but are you thinking it's beef?
- 49:20So maybe Cabernet or Merlot or something later like a Pinot.
- 49:24So to cook it I use a Cabernet, but to serve it I personally
- 49:30like pinot ROI. I know, not really French, but I
- 49:34like pinot ROI. But if I'm gonna have to go with
- 49:37the French wine. I will go with a Boo going.
- 49:39Olivia, I got a different question for you.
- 49:41What's the most underrated spice if you're cooking So salt,
- 49:47pepper, paprika, like that sort of thing.
- 49:49Or if you've got some other definition of you like to use,
- 49:52what do you think is an underrated spice that people
- 49:54should be checking out more? In fact, this weekend I cooked a
- 49:59pie and I went and I purchased an herb.
- 50:02Herb might be a spice and I like to bounce on Teresa as Buff
- 50:06Bourguignon. I discovered and I adjusted the
- 50:09buffer in your Italian style, and there is an herb which I
- 50:14like a lot and people don't really know about it, which is
- 50:17sage. I think you say sage in English
- 50:20and sage in French means wise, in fact in French is Saul.
- 50:24But the word sage in English means wise in French, and sage
- 50:29is an herb that you use a lot in Italy and South of France, which
- 50:33has a very particular taste and is.
- 50:36Absolutely gorgeous with Beau Bourguignon.
- 50:38If you change the wine, you can go from a red wine to a lighter
- 50:42one, change a little bit the vegetable, then add sage.
- 50:47That's just gorgeous. And Sage goes very well with
- 50:51apple pie, so the French apple tart can be adjusted.
- 50:55With a different twist, with some sage, some wiseness.
- 50:58So let's find out. Teresa, do you do you put sage
- 51:01in your dishes today or is this something you have to try out?
- 51:05So the the main main one that I use Sage with is Turkey, right,
- 51:10for Thanksgiving. So that's my American side,
- 51:13right, the 20 years spending in America, almost 20 years
- 51:15spending in America. So I cook, I use Sage mostly for
- 51:19Thanksgiving. So already is right.
- 51:21I mean sage, you don't really use that often.
- 51:24But I may try it now, based on what Olivier said.
- 51:29I may put A twist to my beef book in your own.
- 51:34I feel like I'll try anything, Olivia mentions.
- 51:37He's got me convinced on anything.
- 51:39Usually when I pair with Turkey is a nap, but that's just me.
- 51:43So, Jim, how about yourself? Is there a special meal that you
- 51:48like to prepare? Do you have an underrated spice?
- 51:50I had an underrated spice, but Olivier mentioned it.
- 51:54Sage did. You know, I was gonna say
- 51:57because I told you this weekend I had one of the best breakfast
- 52:02meals I've ever had, which was basically it was like a bunch of
- 52:07great stuff on top of a biscuit that they use sage, sausage
- 52:11gravy. And oh, that's such a wonderful
- 52:15taste. And it was at the restaurant
- 52:17called The Flying Biscuit. I think it's in the Carolinas,
- 52:21Jeff. I looked and that they have one
- 52:23in Raleigh. So I didn't see every location,
- 52:26but man, that was just fantastic.
- 52:28So folks, if you get a chance, hit the flying biscuit in the
- 52:33Carolinas, get the get the sage sausage gravy.
- 52:38Fantastic. That sounds pretty good.
- 52:42I don't. I'm not much of A cook, so I
- 52:43definitely can't prepare a meal. I I would take us somewhere nice
- 52:47rather than try to prepare something.
- 52:49So I'm going to go with the underrated spice.
- 52:52And this is going to sound really dumb.
- 52:53Probably most people, but I think it's just plain salt.
- 52:56I don't think a lot of dishes for me have enough salt in it to
- 53:00bring out much of the flavor. It seems like a lot of things I
- 53:03taste are bland. Maybe it's just me and my
- 53:05palate. I like salt, but it seems like
- 53:08everywhere I go I need to add salt to something.
- 53:11Which makes sense if you think about it.
- 53:12If you're preparing it, you want to over salt it, you want to
- 53:14salt to taste, and everybody has a different taste when it comes
- 53:18to salt. So I don't know, I'm not
- 53:19professional. Olivier, Are you laughing at me,
- 53:22Teresa? Are you laughing at me for me
- 53:24choosing salt? Or is there any modica please
- 53:26ask you me for having salt be an underrated spice?
- 53:31Jeff, if I may, I will send you a very nice French recipe of
- 53:35Dorad. It's actually fish.
- 53:37Cooked under salt. The Chinese also have a recipe
- 53:40where you cook with salt, like literally the whole wok.
- 53:44It's full of salt and you cook the fish or the chicken wrapped
- 53:49around with salt. So actually salt.
- 53:52It's very versatile and have actually.
- 53:55It's not one single toilet flavor like salty actually
- 53:58that's depth to it. And you can smoke the salt and
- 54:00bring out other kind of flavor from it or garlic infusing with
- 54:04other herbs. So it's really a good.
- 54:06I was thinking about salt when you asked me that question in
- 54:09prep but then I went with the meal.
- 54:11But I do agree that it's salt can can create that in your dish
- 54:19you use it. Well, yeah, and salt is probably
- 54:22the only spice that you cannot live without.
- 54:25If you do not have salt, you will die.
- 54:26Good. Thing.
- 54:27I'm not going to die anytime soon because I ate a lot of
- 54:28salt, probably too much salt. All right, let's go ahead and
- 54:33leave it there for this week. Olivia and Teresa, thank you so
- 54:35much for joining us. Thank you for backing me up on
- 54:38my salt play. I definitely appreciate that.
- 54:40Sounds like we're going to have to have dinner at Teresa's at
- 54:42some point and try out these these concoctions.
- 54:47Any final thoughts or takeaways, Teresa, before we wrap things
- 54:51up? Yeah, I think that you said you
- 54:54have international audience. You may want to set a more
- 54:57ambitious road map for your broadcast to do international
- 55:02broadcast and show, and then you get invited to Olivia's house in
- 55:05the. Future, I would love to travel
- 55:08internationally. Travel is of course as you know
- 55:11expensive. So if there is a conference or
- 55:14something out there that wants to sponsor, you know Jim and I
- 55:16coming out and doing something live from there like we do with
- 55:18some of the other stuff in the in the US definitely.
- 55:22I would definitely be up for that for sure.
- 55:23I love the travel so that would be good, but it is expensive.
- 55:27Olivier, anything you want to wrap things up with?
- 55:30No, I think that was great. And for your information, salt
- 55:34used to be taxed in France and that the only thing that we have
- 55:37removed taxes in France, we are tax specialists and in fact we
- 55:41removed the taxes on salt, which actually was a good move.
- 55:45There's a fun fact, Jim. Anything you want to wrap things
- 55:48up with now I think you know this podcast just like there's
- 55:53so many other resources, is great for sharpening the saw,
- 55:57getting you thinking maybe sending you down a path to do
- 56:02some more research and become more knowledgeable.
- 56:04And I mean, that's really how I built my IT knowledge and later
- 56:09I M knowledge is you find these things that you don't understand
- 56:13that you want to learn more about and you go out and
- 56:15research and you know, hopefully this teases a few ideas in your
- 56:19mind that you go out and do further research.
- 56:21Because I think everything we covered today was very much at
- 56:24the at the surface level, there's so much more.
- 56:27So I encourage everyone dive. Deeper Yeah, we definitely can't
- 56:31solve all of Quantum identities problems in one podcast, but I
- 56:34think this was a good start to at least having a conversation
- 56:37get going. We're gonna go ahead and leave
- 56:39things there for this week. We will have links in our show
- 56:43notes to Teresa and Olivier to connect with them on LinkedIn.
- 56:47Also, we can learn more about idemia at idemia.com idemia.com.
- 56:54I'll have a bunch of links in our show notes as well for the
- 56:56different conferences and discount codes for the different
- 56:59things we've got. As well as connecting with Jim
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