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Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process

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[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the issue is that the government made mistakes in their contributions? I feel like that's just standard government incompetence, honestly.

Any post-quantum encryption algorithm is going to be highly scrutinized, so I can't say I'm particularly worried about the theoretical side of it, at least.

The implementation is a whole other story, of course.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah that stuff was way too public for it to be that big of a deal.

Hell, for that matter, The only reason that RSA is relatively weak to quantum is because quantum computers have one neat trick that lines up perfectly with RSAs one neat vulnerability.

I was severely disappointed when I found out how they were actually doing the RSA breaking on quantum.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago