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Since quantum cryptography requires a special physical connection between the two parties, it wouldn't be particularly effective at securing the all-important SSL traffic. Luckily, I highly doubt practical use of Shor's algorithm will be possible publicly in 5-10 years, but even if it will, it's not necessary to use quantum cryptography to defend against quantum computers:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography



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