Sorry, huh? Who's paying academia to shill? This is conspiracy thinking. Changing cryptographic algorithms takes a long time - there are a lot of systems with

Sorry, huh? Who's paying academia to shill? This is conspiracy thinking. Changing cryptographic algorithms takes a long time - there are a lot of systems with this stuff embedded in them. Taking some modestly low-cost efforts _now_ to be prepared for a potentially "really bad" future event is more like buying insurance than anything else. Is it a good choice? I dunno; I have no bets on the likelihood of a working crypto-breaking QC emerging in the next 30 years. But it's not really an irrational thing to worry about on a 10-30 year time horizon, and to simultaneously think that some of the computer systems we design and build today will still be running then.