Over the last several years, academia and industry have been converging on a shorter and more realistic timeline to Q-Day. While new research continues to move the Q-Day timeline up to 2028-2030, the scale and scope of the impact have been less clear. Broadly, the expectation has been that quantum attacks on cryptography would be serious, but there has been less information on which to base estimates of their speed, accessibility, and breadth. Two new research papers, released within a day of
