The strategic logic of Quantum Raven inverts the conventional breach timeline. Rather than seeking immediate plaintext access, the weapon establishes persistent collection points at TLS-terminating infrastructure — enterprise proxies, CDN edges, and cloud egress gateways — and silently archives every session key and ciphertext that passes through.
The decrypted payload is worthless in 2027. It becomes weaponizable the moment a fault-tolerant quantum processor crosses the 2,000 logical-qubit threshold, at which point RSA-2048, ECDH-P256, and their session derivatives collapse in parallel. Intelligence with a ten-year half-life — diplomatic cables, infrastructure blueprints, biometric templates — is being stored against that day.
The threat is not a single intrusion but a category of patient, low-noise collection. Detection requires entropy analysis of egress traffic and anomalous long-term storage growth at intermediate hops — signatures that most SIEMs do not baseline.