New Scientist

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption

Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algori...

This article is sort of related to my thoughts, but mainly the question for me is: Is Quantum computing a boogeyman created in order to give agencies a chance to restandardize encryption schemes to their benefit with undetectable backdoors? I'd wager that the benefits of "quantum resistance" are outweighed by the risks that these backdoors will be implemented, until a quantum computer is actually proven to break these schemes