The AI Lab Launches Post-Quantum TIP Protocol for Content Verification

Insider Brief

• The AI Lab has made its Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) publicly available as a post-quantum system for verifying content authorship, identity and whether digital works have been altered.
• The company argues that advances in quantum computing and AI have shortened the preparation window for post-quantum cryptography, citing estimates ranging from about 20 years to roughly two years.
• TIP uses ML-DSA-65 signatures, SHAKE-256 content fingerprints and a decentralized ledger to create a permanent record of a work’s creator and modification status, while stating that it does not establish whether the content itself is true.

PRESS RELEASE — Journalists, authors, filmmakers, and other creators can now prove that their work is theirs, and that it has not been changed, with a tag built for the post-quantum era and recorded on an immutable, decentralized distributed ledger. The AI Lab (theailab.org) today made the Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) available to the public, saying that AI has cut the time the world has to prepare for quantum computing from about 20 years to about two.

The quantum clock is moving faster than expected, and artificial intelligence is one reason why. In 2019, researchers estimated that breaking RSA-2048, the encryption behind much of the world’s digital trust, would take a quantum computer with about 20 million qubits. In May 2025, a Google Quantum AI researcher cut that estimate to fewer than one million. In February 2026, a new design known as the Pinnacle Architecture put it under 100,000 physical qubits, under specific engineering assumptions. In March 2026, Google set 2029 as its own deadline to move to post-quantum cryptography, and named digital signatures a priority.