We should definitely panic because never before have we had to consider the possibility that today's state-of-the-art encryption scheme may be obsolete in... *reads article* ... Twenty-five years?https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1134306260692586497 …
Nice try, NSA plant account
You're right, but it's still true that "We now have a way to break RSA that doesn't break the laws of physics". Scaling is a very hard eng challenge, but some people don't want to bet that it's like Nuclear Fusion, rather than like semiconductors.
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I think NSA could do better! I don't understand what you mean... when you say "now have a way... doesn't break physics" I assume you mean in a theoretical sense. But those 2002 ideas didn't break the laws of physics either, they were just not practically unrealizable...like today
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People look to cryptography for mathematical certainty. Practical realizability can change over night with invention and the most well funded adversaries keep their progress secret. That makes people want to hedge.
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