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What would happen if the rest of the PQC finalists get broken by barebones classical attacks like SIKE was?
by netr0ute 4y ago
What would happen if the rest of the PQC finalists get broken by barebones classical attacks like SIKE was?
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoPeople would try to invent new better algorithms, presumably.
- elil17 4y agoDepends if it was before or after they started using them to secure important data. Before - it's no big deal, just the safeguards working as they should. After - that would be bad.
- qzw 4y agoAnyone that's using PQC as more than a curiosity would presumably take a belt-and-suspenders approach by using multiple rounds of different PQC as well as classical cryptographic algorithms, hopefully carefully selected so that they rely on different mathematics and therefore do not share the same theoretical weaknesses.
- 323 4y ago> Tech consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has warned that China will soon plan the theft of high value data, so it can decrypt it once quantum computers break classical encryption. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/29/china_quantum_ai_offensive/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/29/china_quantum_ai_offe...
- hackcasual 4y agoIt's unlikely. There's a diversity of mathematical approaches represented, including some who's underlying systems have been studied for the last 50 years