@sophieschmieg This articlae say, you shouldn't take factoring as a good metric to measure progress, fair enough, but then you argue, in fact it's gonna be very soon we can factor. Isn't this a contradiction? THis is not a snarky remark. Personally I think QC is a risk, like there are many others. But I think there are biger, known risks. And the store now decrypt later stuff I think is non-sense. Storing everything is not feasible, storing select stuff means you have a problem now, because some one ass already access to select important stuff. That boils down to a quote from Adi Shamir: NSA is not a crypto breaking agency, it's a crypto evading agency,