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Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an engineering achievement
- cabirum 1y agoQuantum computing does not exist. The industry with it's 30 year history since Shor algorithm boasts its crown achievement of factoring the mind-blowing N=35 and creatively inflated qubit counts.
- z3ratul163071 1y agoamen
- ItsHarper 1y agoDoesn't mean that it won't exist in the future (I'm not sure if this was meant to be negative towards Signals efforts here)
- createaccount99 1y agoYeah let's only start work once it's too late. That'll teach em!
- toomuchtodo 1y agoIf it could exist during our lifetime, assuming the capture and storage of encrypted message streams is trivial to well resourced threat actors (nation states), if the cost is reasonable to implement quantum mitigations it is reasonable and prudent from a risk management perspective to do so. The worst case scenario is nation states consuming and storing these encrypted message streams, and suddenly achieving the ability to rapidly decrypt everything previously captured and stored a la "No more secrets."