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by ls65536 484 days ago
> until there is actually a quantum computer that can break it

There isn't one yet (at least that the general public knows about), but that doesn't mean we don't need to do anything about it right now. See this problem, for example, which would potentially affect today's encrypted data if it were harvested and saved to storage for the long term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later