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The imminent nonsense of fear-mongering and money wasting, mostly. Academic funds spent billions on PQC and academia has been paid to shill nonsense for long en
by zero_k 3y ago
The imminent nonsense of fear-mongering and money wasting, mostly. Academic funds spent billions on PQC and academia has been paid to shill nonsense for long enough to convince some of these players to "ah, let's just integrate PQC, whatever". It's nothing more than a waste of money and resources.
- dgacmu 3y agoSorry, huh? Who's paying academia to shill? This is conspiracy thinking. Changing cryptographic algorithms takes a long time - there are a lot of systems with this stuff embedded in them. Taking some modestly low-cost efforts _now_ to be prepared for a potentially "really bad" future event is more like buying insurance than anything else. Is it a good choice? I dunno; I have no bets on the likelihood of a working crypto-breaking QC emerging in the next 30 years. But it's not really an irrational thing to worry about on a 10-30 year time horizon, and to simultaneously think that some of the computer systems we design and build today will still be running then.