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Your encryption might take the age of the universe to break with current computing hardware, but we wouldn't be having this conversation if vacuum tubes were still a thing. 1024-bit DKIM used to be the gold standard, now it's unusably weak and 2048-bit is king, due to advances in computing hardware.
Are you really going to bet we don't make faster computers in the next 20 years? Or that you'll be aware an adversary can break your encryption the instant they have the capability?
In a billion years I'm probably irrelevant. But is the data on my system right still relevant to anyone even in just 20 years time? I doubt it. No passwords or tokens will be valid anymore. Worst case they see some family photos or old browser history