Are your old hard drives encrypted using asymmetric cryptography? If not, I'm not sure who made you that promise.
replyThe funny thing is we already have PQC so even if quantum computing works, it will be immediately irrelevant.
replyAt least for breaking crypto, which seems to be its headline feature. Maybe there are other useful things it can do?
I expect they're just banking on getting their investment back with some fat returns by licensing it to the NSA to decrypt their hoovered up encrypted coms, with their data storage now reaching up to the yottabyte level. That's a lotta byte.
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