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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (13 children)

No they don't "need" help doing that. Quantum resistance is kind of a waste of time considering the largest number factored by these things is 21.

And the known algorithm we halve just square roots the search space on average. So a 256 bit key is still secure. Quantum resistance just seems like another industry scam to try and take us away from well supported open-source stuff.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

It's just math and the relentless march of technology. Fear not, we have lots of open source post quantum cryptography libraries.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The point in time after the first qbit based supercomputers transitioned from theoretical abstraction to physical proven reality. Thus opening up the can-of-worms of feasabily cracking classical cryptographic encryptions like an egg within human acceptable time frames instead of longer-than-the-universes-lifespan timeframes.. Thanks, superposition probability based parallel computations.

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