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bawolff 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is mor...

In fairness, quantum doesn't really help against normal crypto (of the type that is being discussed - symmetric). AES-256 will also laugh in the face of QC.

dreamcompiler 5 months ago [–]

Indeed. Quantum is only useful (in principle) against some types of asymmetric algorithms.

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