There are a variety of algorithms which are safe in a post-quantum crypto world.  Developing and deploying them will take time, but they exist.  Making them safe will take longer, but it will happen.<p>The threat you describe sounds like a race.  But in fact, it&#x27;s more like a switch.  Right now the world is pre-quantum.  When the switch is flipped, to post-quantum, a lot of algorithms will break.  But not all of them.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pqcrypto.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pqcrypto.org&#x2F;</a> for some interesting reading.<p>Post-Quantum Cryptography, Bernstein, 2009:  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.e-reading.club&#x2F;bookreader.php&#x2F;135832&#x2F;Post_Quantum_Cryptography.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.e-reading.club&#x2F;bookreader.php&#x2F;135832&#x2F;Post_Quantum...</a><p>Regarding your point, I don&#x27;t think that people here are being dismissive of your ideas.  You&#x27;re quite right.  But there are reasons to be positive about the future, while highlighting the negatives.  Isn&#x27;t it so interesting that certain algorithms can be safe in a pqcrypto world?<p>Notice where the algorithms spring up from.  You mention a hackathon, but that&#x27;s not where these algorithms root.  They&#x27;re from universities.  And universities are interesting.  If the legislation will face resistance, it will probably be from academics, like in the last crypto war.