3 ms·
Of course all this might go out the window once quantum computers become mainstream.
by coldcode 11y ago
Of course all this might go out the window once quantum computers become mainstream.
- dchest 11y agoHow so? Currently known symmetric crypto algorithms are secure against attacks by quantum computers. More than that, hash functions, which are building primitives of password hashing functions, are used in "post-quantum crypto", e.g. for signatures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Hash-based_Cryptography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Hash..., http://sphincs.cr.yp.to/ http://sphincs.cr.yp.to/). (Although more research should be done on memory-hard functions.)