http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect... is another example of a very highly placed secondary news source casting fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the value of industry-standard encryption practices which is not only based on the unchecked alleged reliability mere primary sources, but on such sources who willingly refer to themselves as "black hats," meaning malicious actors.

That is preposterousness.

Elliptic curve-based cryptography is profoundly secure and has been considered such ever since it came into vogue in the 1980s and well before its predecessors were exposed as flawed.

Although some mathematicians have suggested that they are not completely invulnerable to advances in quantum computing, the discrete logarithm problem and elliptic curve-based trapdoor functions are both completely impenetrable to any currently known applications of qubit-based attacks.

Shame on those who promulgate such FUD.