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Sha-2 is already quantum safe.

Sha is not a digital signature algorithm. That is a different type of crypto primitive.

>Given that NIST itself warns PQC algorithm may be unsafe after 2035

I thought post-quantum cryptography was supposed to be futureproof? Or am I misunderstanding

Hash functions aren’t significantly impacted by quantum computers. You may need to use a longer construction (eg. SHA512 instead of SHA256), but that’s it.

Im not a cryptographer, im kind of curious - is it possible to combine a birthday attack with grover's algorithm to attack sha256 in 2^64 time?

You would get cube root speedup instead of sqrt for a collision (birthday attack), or sqrt instead of brute force for a preimage. So SHA256 is secure from preimage attacks even with a quantum computer, and gives 2^80 protection against collisions. SHA-2/384 would be sufficient for 128-bit security against collisions.