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[-] itsdavetho@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Once quantum computers crack traditional cryptographic algorithms can't quantum computers also be used to make new ones? Isn't that what that summary pretty much implies?🤔

[-] oozynozh@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The question would be whether modern consumer computers will be capable of implementing post-quantum cryptographic algorithms. At the moment, I don't believe many can.

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Post quantum cryptography exists in a way that we know algorithms that run on traditional hardware and are safe from quantum computers. They’re just not widely used.

Source: my ex did her PhD in that area and told me.

[-] oozynozh@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

did y'all up cuz she broke your encryption keys and found out about all your infidelity?

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

lol

no, not that, something else

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly. That’s what I was saying

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is in theory not as big as it sounds. Quantum computing takes away one exponent. Meaning it reduces a complexity of 2^x to x.

But it also reduces 2^x^y only to x^y.

And we have cryptography that features that complexity, too.

In practice, quantum computers still are a very tough challenge, because our 2^x algorithms are virtually everywhere, and going through that is a similar effort as was the y2k problem, only with much much much more code, because y2k was 23 years ago

[-] Boozilla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm concerned about the arms race between code breakers and code makers in regards to the future of encryption. But I think I'm even more troubled about data from the past. Everything gets archived somewhere, and the old encrypted data that's forever archived will be super easy pickings.

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