Post #4246889
2026-07-30 16:45 UTC
post-quantum cryptography is one of my favorite genres of the computer fandom
"someone invented an imaginary computer nobody can build and we've decided to be afraid of it" is just quality shit. cannot get enough
Replies (4)
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@astrid@woem.space 2026-07-30 17:00
@khm they made shor's algorithm work! they got 15 and 21! (don't ask how easy 15 and 21 are, or where the fuck grover's algorithm is)
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-07-30 16:48
@khm And we've decided not to be afraid of very real things just because the industry doesn't want to sacrifice the performance to fix them. 🤡
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@alcinnz@floss.social 2026-07-30 16:54
@khm I'm sure part of it is that cryptographers enjoy solving this puzzle...
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@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net 2026-07-30 17:14
@khm@hj.9fs.net lmao what security experts think security issues are: in 20 years someone will decrypt your saved ssh sessions with a quantum computer! what security issues actually are: asking the bigcorp llm to pretty please return all the private records it has access to 🥺