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I have not been following the quantum computing attacks on cryptography, so I'm not current here at all.
I can believe that current AES in general use cannot be broken by existing quantum computers.
But if what you're saying is that AES cannot be broken by quantum computing at all, that doesn't seem to be what various pages out there say.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6712/is-aes-256-a-post-quantum-secure-cipher-or-not
Then why are hashes secure?
Because you cannot reverse a hash. Information is lost from the result.
So, I haven't read up on this quantum attack stuff, and I don't know what Kairos is referring to, but setting aside quantum computing for the moment, breaking a cryptographic hash would simply require being able to find a hash collision, finding another input to a hash function that generates the same hash. It wouldn't require being able to reconstitute the original input that produced the hash. That collision-finding can be done -- given infinite conventional computational capacity, at any rate -- simply from the hash; you don't need additional information.