Quantum Computing is just a pipe dream right now. I highly doubt the NSA has a CERN like laboratory buried under NSA headquarters lol. A project of that massive size would have been detected long long ago. The NSA might have broken the SSL encryption but in reality they likely were involved in it's development. So this isn't all that surprising really. What needs to happen now is the development of a new standard. One which is separate from the NSA prying eyes as they clearly don't have the american people's best interests at heart. Our founding fathers even knew better to make such claims.
Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” Meanwhile, our president claims that we cannot have 100% security and 100% privacy and that as a society we have to make some choices. To that I say, no Mr. President, we don’t. Let’s look, for example, at the recent attacks in Boston. Our government was violating our rights, trolling through millions of phone records, sifting through mountains of data and yet still didn't notice, or didn't notice enough, that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was traveling to Chechnya. Perhaps instead of treating every American as a potential terror suspect, the government should concentrate on more targeted analysis and an analysis that doesn't violate the Bill of Rights.