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If you're worried that quantum computers will crack your crypto, don't be – at least, not for a decade or so. Here's why

amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

FUD Rules in Never Never Land

Quantum computing ... finicky vaporware .... Thomas Claburn in San Francisco

Well, two outta three aint bad, TC, but vaporware is definitely for the odd bods left petrified and stagnating out in the cold.

"The hard truth is that widespread beliefs about security and encryption may prove to be based on fantasy rather than fact." .... Richard Evers, cryptographer for a Canadian security biz called Kryptera

You mean like the widespread beliefs about security and encryption being possible whenever IT Programs and Systems Analysis Programmers are always proving them to be impossible to achieve with no degree of absolute certainty?

In any 'normal' business environment, such services would extraordinarily render themselves as likely victims and patsies liable to crippling prosecution and censure and even lengthy incarceration in a crooked penitentiary for surely such would be a Systematic Systemic Fraud.

And is "Nevertheless, be careful" the best that systems have to offer?

In your dreams, buster. Things have changed, .... or if you are slow and unfashionably late to parties and have missed all the foundational action, content yourself with believing, in a see of doubt and hubris, that things are a'changing.

At least then you can maybe imagine yourself being able to do something about it with the addition of content for utilisation and realisation in Greater IntelAIgent Games Plays.

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