AES-128 is safe against quantum computers. SHA-256 is safe against quantum computers. No symmetric key sizes have to change as part of the post-quantum transition. This is a near-consensus opinion amongst experts and standardization bodies and it needs to propagate to the rest of the IT community. The rest of this article backs up this claim both technically and with references to relevant authorities.

Original article: https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/

TL;DR: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/25/quantum-computers-are-not-a-threat-to-128-bit-symmetric-keys/

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    Good for security. What does this mean for quantum computing, though? Does this mean that it’s not as powerful as we thought it would have been?

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