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As someone who has no idea of these things, I have always causally wondered what the effects of a breakthrough in quantum computing would be: 1) Does secure on
by tqi 3y ago
As someone who has no idea of these things, I have always causally wondered what the effects of a breakthrough in quantum computing would be:
1) Does secure online browsing become impossible?
2) Does the entire crypto currency market evaporate?
Also would it be more advantageous / profitable for that country to publicize it or keep it a secret?
- Khoth 3y agoThe search keyword to learn more is "post-quantum cryptography" RSA and ECC cryptography could be broken, but (with a probably rocky transition period) we could move to other algorithms which are still secure. Crytocurrency I'm not sure about. I suspect probably keeping it secret - announcing it would push everyone to move from crypto you can break to crypto you can't.