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by Moodles 1571 days ago
> My naive security architect view is, I get the impression the people doing quantum engineering and those working as cryptographers have a very narrow overlap.

Correct. It's also the difference between theoretical security for infinite time vs security for something like 10^30 years. Is it really worth changing tried and tested algorithms and implementations already in place?

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The asymmetric encryption/key-exchange algorithms that survive large quantum computers are all quite experimental and each has at least one major downside compared to RSA and (EC)DH. Still I'd prefer them over QKD.