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 …
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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True and they would be well-advised to do so. My only point was that I don't see any more scientific reason to hedge based on today's knowledge than based on 2002's knowledge. It's just the media attention that has increased.
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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.