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Assuming you're just some random person and not the govt, why would you care?

Everyone will switch to one-time pads if you released it publicly. And you'd have to be very patriotic to give it secretly to the government.



I’ve spent the last 15 years working in cryptography. I’m now running a startup making quantum computers. I know my customers :)

Switching to one-time-pads is easier said than done. Upgrading to PQC will be complicated and difficult, and there is a lot of recorded historical messages.




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