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...which is something I actually consider. I does indeed actually bother me that very few companies have actually adopted post-quantum cryptography yet. What is even the point of my VPN, for example, if there is a potential that everything is cracked 40 years down the line? NIST has already basically approved the standards. It should be an option for sensitive things, like anything to do with banking, data storage, and VPN.

Is your cloud Quantum Safe™?

lol. That could end up being the one non-grift example, though.

There's going to be lots of grift claiming that something is somehow "better because quantum", as if how the thing was processed makes the outcomes artisanal. lol.

But defending against assholes who have access to a quantum computer is actually proving to be not too terribly expensive, so far. (Signal and Proton claim to be ready now, for example.)

But a big important open question is which kinda of assholes will have access to quantum computers, and what quality, and how soon.

I expect a slow stupid adotpion race between ignorance and laziness.

It's not unreasonably expensive to secure services against quantum computer attacks (so far), but until people understand it enough to want it, most vendors will probably ignore it.

So we will probably get something like HTTPS adoption, again - unreasonably slow due to lack of understanding or care about the risks, probably with a few infamous breach scenarios along the way to mark progress against.