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Of course all this might go out the window once quantum computers become mainstream.


How so? Currently known symmetric crypto algorithms are secure against attacks by quantum computers. More than that, hash functions, which are building primitives of password hashing functions, are used in "post-quantum crypto", e.g. for signatures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Hash..., http://sphincs.cr.yp.to/). (Although more research should be done on memory-hard functions.)




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