One of the most infuriating things about #QuantumComputing related stuff is that #QuantumComputers being theoretically able to break factoring and DLog (aka: most asymmetric crypto in current use) using Shor’s algorithm is used as a selling point for #QuantumCryptography (QC) or #QuantumKeyDistribution (#QKD).
The two topics really have nothing to do with each other, the solution for dealing with the broken schemes is to replace them with non-broken ones.
If we want QKD, there has to be a DIFFERENT motivation for it, that has nothing to do with Shor’s algorithm.
Somehow we have allowed the presentation to become “after classical crypto choose #PostQuantumCrypto (#PQC) or QKD”, instead of “keep using classical crypto that is secure against known attacks or switch to QKD”.
In line with that we should also increasingly move to stop talking about PQC, and just talk about secure #cryptography, because that is really all it is.