It should be noted that quantum computers are a threat mainly for interactions between unrelated parties which perform legal activities, e.g. online shopping, online banking, notarized legal documents that use long-term digital signatures.
replyQuantum computers are not a threat for spies or for communications within private organizations where security is considered very important, where the use of public-key cryptography can easily be completely avoided and authentication and session key exchanges can be handled with pre-shared secret keys used only for that purpose.
I will bring this up at the next meeting of the secret cryptographer cabal where we decide what information to reveal to non-cryptographers.
replyWhat is "it" that you're referring to?
reply> mitigating harvest-now/decrypt-later attacks.
replyMost likely the NSA or someone else is ahead of the game and already has a quantum computer. If the tech news rumors are to true the NSA has a facility in Utah that can gather large swaths of the internet and process the data.
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FYI this is a parody website. (in case it's not obvious)
replyIt wasn't obvious to me!
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