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My pet conspiracy theory is that at least some large governments have quantum computers of useful strength. It's probably more likely that they're just trudgin
by kadoban 7y ago
My pet conspiracy theory is that at least some large governments have quantum computers of useful strength.
It's probably more likely that they're just trudging along with side-channel attacks, CA fuckery, breaking into servers, and doing targeted attacks though. Cheaper and likely works well enough.
- jefftk 7y agoI'd be pretty surprised if they had quantum computers to where they could decrypt https, but it's at least possible. The more prosaic means you're describing, plus zero days and phishing (unless that's included in "targeted attacks"?), can still get them a long way.
- kadoban 7y agoYeah, zero days, phishing and coopting servers to send exploits to specific targets are what I meant by targeted attacks (and some of those overlap). You're probably right on the quantum computers of course, but I like comparing it against what was publicly know about say cryptanalysis vs what the NSA knew in the DES days, and also similar situations in the ww2 days.