title: Quantum Computing and Encryption Breaking
body: <p>I read a while back that Quantum Computers can break most types of hashing and encryption in use today in a very short amount of time(I believe it was mere minutes). How is it possible? I've tried reading articles about it but I get lost at the <code>a quantum bit can be 1, 0, or something else</code>. Can someone explain how this relates to cracking such algorithms in plain English without all the fancy maths? </p>