Encryption is useless

"Yes, the NSA has the capability to crack anything weaker than SHA-2048 with O(1) complexity."

- Edward Snowden

We need quantum-proof crypto... NOW.

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

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wikipedia
I did. It says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition
if a physical system may be in one of many configurations — arrangements of particles or fields — then the most general state is a combination of all of these possibilities
So basically a "physical system" has a number of parallel processor, result of which is folded to a single value, like with Lisp's REDUCE function.

Wikipedia is very vague source of information.