> What about building quantum safe protocols? Is that as a field any more interesting and/or viable? Yes. Plenty of stuff happening in that field. The challen

> What about building quantum safe protocols? Is that as a field any more interesting and/or viable? Yes. Plenty of stuff happening in that field. The challenge is: Right now we can choose between probably safe, but impractical (mcbits, sphincs) and practical, but with big questionmarks about how safe they are (newhope, sidh). The problem is: We really only trust crypto algos if they have been tested and researched over a long time, but lots of these things are pretty new.