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> You may trust untrusted hardware with your encrypted content Couldn't someone still capture them from the untrusted hardware, wait until quantum computer tec
by voxic11 4y ago
> You may trust untrusted hardware with your encrypted content
Couldn't someone still capture them from the untrusted hardware, wait until quantum computer technology is available, then decrypt them?
- beisner 4y agoThere are quantum-resistant encryption schemes. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
- nicoburns 4y agoYou’ll probably be dead by then anyway.
- denton-scratch 4y agoSome people guard secrets that they think need to stay hidden for more than a lifetime.
- greiskul 4y agoQuantum computing is theoretically able to attack many of the public key encryption algorithms we use. Hardware encryption of HDs doesn't use those algorithms, it uses symmetric-key algorithms, that are not vulnerable to quantum attacks.