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Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up (www.theregister.com)

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the case of quantum computing, there is a real meaning to it (in really vague terms, its computing using the suoerposition of quantum states to collapse extraordinarily complex problems down to a single answer). The problem rather is that right now companies are eagerly hyping this tech as being "just around the corner" when it's nothing of the sort (unless a bunch of massive breakthroughs suddenly turn up).