hanno@hannoΒ·Oct 15, 2018Blackberry announces partnership to integrate quantum-safe encryption. Apparently nobody who has a clue about the topic checked the press release.2214
hanno@hannoΒ·Oct 15, 2018(context: the 256 bit key you use when connecting to Google is the symmetric AES key. No quantum computer will break that one. The concern re QC is about public key crypto.)211
Matthew Green@matthew_d_greenΒ·Oct 15, 2018Replying to @hannoOr it could be the P256 or Curve25519 ECDH key.1
Daniel Micay@DanielMicayReplying to @matthew_d_green and @hannohttps://twitter.com/hanno/status/1051738453438816257β¦ makes the point that it's still wrong in that case though.Quote Tweethanno@hannoΒ·Oct 15, 2018Replying to @srslypascalthat would be a generous interpretation, but I think this doesn't match up with the 2^256 guesses and brute-forcing of the key.10:30 PM Β· Oct 15, 2018Β·Twitter Web Client