Sounds interesting. I gather that Hive can store all sorts of data and hiding the recipient is cool.
What are the risks to Hive in general from quantum computing? I'm not clued up on the encryption used.
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Messages published onchain using Hive-Mail are quantum resistant, but this does not change anything in the way how Hive currently works. Hive like most blockchains is not expected to resist Shor's Algorithm when quantum computing reaches a certain number of logical qubits, likely ~2000. Meaning, at some point in the future, the algorithm used to derive key pairs in most blockchains including Hive will need to be changed. There's no reason for panic right now though.
Now, as I explained in my post, even after Hive changes algos to become quantum resistant, any encrypted messages published onchain prior to that will remain unchanged, i.e. easy prey to quantum computing, forever.
I'm sure plenty of people are worried about all sorts of old communications that could be cracked at some point. You can be sure governments are working on that.