Thanks... I lack the math background to grok "ould solve an nP problem in polynomial time." without doing some refreshing, but I really appreciate you distillin

Thanks... I lack the math background to grok "ould solve an nP problem in polynomial time." without doing some refreshing, but I really appreciate you distilling that into one plain sentence. (I never took Calc, I'd get impatient because I skipped geometry and trig and a few other things before I went off to uni.) >If true, our lock-in functions for encrypted data might need to be revised because a quantum computer could solve them faster. Yikes, though it was my understanding symmetric ciphers (ex: AES) wouldn't be as impacted. I tried to find a cite, and all I found was an attack paper backing up the assertion previous attacks were mostly on asyymetric ciphers. (Not a cryptographer, so I often can just repeat the takeaways from what others explained in detail their reasoning on): > So far, in cryptography, the impact of quantum computing is analyzed mostly for asymmetric cryptography and less is known about its consequences on symmetric cryptography [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045790622003743 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00457... I try to keep things offline, but it's hard to keep up with all these... heuristics :-)