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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by MichaelMoser123 on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:38AM (#13845377)
Its more of a problem if you have key exchange (like RSA); here [1] it says that with AES is supposedly secure against quantum computers with 'sufficiently sized key sizes'; For key exchange they are trying to adapt elliptic curves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography .

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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by snakeanus on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:20AM (#13845473)
Elliptic curves are broken in a quantum setting.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by ekiru on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:57AM (#13845591)
There is an approach (called Supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman or SIDH) using certain types of mappings between elliptic curves being researched that _may_ be secure in a quantum setting. (edit to add:) I think this may be what the grandparent poster is referring to by "trying to adapt elliptic curves".
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