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A Boring Dystopia
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Yup, data archival. Now imagine this future: right now, encrypted data transfers may be wire-tapped and stored. When quantum computers are available, all that traffic will be decryptable. This includes pretty much all general HTTPS traffic since TLS mostly uses ECDHE for key exchange which isn't quantum secure.
I bet nation state actors are recording everything they can.
Damn, dude... that's insane and I'm surprised it's never occurred to me.
I've had the realization before as I realize that maybe my password database will eventually be easily cracked... but there's no reason it cannot apply to data in transit as well, as long as someone is recording it.