Cryptographers said at the RSA Conference Tuesday they’re skeptical that advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence will profoundly transform computer security.

NIST has made a public plea for submissions for new crypto algorithms that can stand up against quantum computing and protect data.

Plenty has been speculated since the Snowden documents were made public about the NSA’s interest in building a quantum computer that could break current encryption securing communication worldwide. Quantum computing on a practical scale is a distant goal, but some do exist that leverage some aspects of quantum physics and small numbers of quantum bits....