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I don't think this should be a surprise for anyone at this point. All of our systems have critical vulnerabilities that haven't been discovered yet. Welcome to
by tragictrash 5y ago
I don't think this should be a surprise for anyone at this point. All of our systems have critical vulnerabilities that haven't been discovered yet. Welcome to 2022.
If you think quantum breaking cryptography is bad, wait until they figure out how to use it for fuzzing.
- orblivion 5y agoActually wouldn't that be good? Assuming the good guys have access to quantum computers.
- sidkshatriya 5y agoEven if both good and bad guys would have access to quantum computers there would still be an asymmetry: The good guys would still need to find and patch everything all the time without fail. The bad guys would just need their quantum computer to find a single flaw that had not been found and/or patched by the good guys yet.
- littlestymaar 5y agoThe thing is: there will also be an asymmetry regarding who can afford a quantum computer that actually serves a purpose, at least for the first decade.
- orblivion 5y agoOkay, so you're expecting new fuzzing techniques to be found all the time, or perhaps that fuzzing may be a long term process. I was sort of assuming that you'd have a super fuzzer that you can throw at every piece of software that comes out, so it's fixed before it gets released. (Obviously the interim would be real bumpy given existing software).
- fulafel 5y agoOr: Every year this is realization hits a new cohort of people, as it has for decades.
- staticassertion 5y agoI don't really see any applications of quantum computing to fuzzing tbh edit: OK I thought a bit more. Maybe if QC would improve concolic execution, but I haven't heard that that would be the case - that there are algorithms used for symbolic execution that would benefit from a QC.