As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the now-common joke in cryptography circles observes, experts have been forecasting this cryptocalypse will arrive in the next 15 to 30 years for the past 30 years.
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One exception to the industry-wide lethargy is the engineering team that designs the Signal Protocol, the open source engine that powers the world’s most robust and resilient form of end-to-end encryption for multiple private chat apps, most notably the Signal Messenger. Eleven days ago, the nonprofit entity that develops the protocol, Signal Messenger LLC, published a 5,900-word write-up describing its latest updates that make Signal fully quantum-resistant.
Very very very cool, thanks so much for sharing. My cryptography knowledge is pretty rusty and outdated (I read Simon Singh's The Code Book like 15+ years ago) so most of this was over my head,...
Very very very cool, thanks so much for sharing. My cryptography knowledge is pretty rusty and outdated (I read Simon Singh's The Code Book like 15+ years ago) so most of this was over my head, but it was still a great read.
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Very very very cool, thanks so much for sharing. My cryptography knowledge is pretty rusty and outdated (I read Simon Singh's The Code Book like 15+ years ago) so most of this was over my head, but it was still a great read.