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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by cJ0th on Saturday March 11, 2017 @01:36PM (#13846523)
> Quantum computing will defeat RSA, DH, ECC, asymmetric crypto, but it will only weaken symmetric crypto (eg. AES) by a factor of two.

That's quite a bummer. I finally managed to convince someone to use gpg and now I learn that this just makes sure your emails will be read/analyzed by anyone who has an interest in it in the future.

Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by geofft on Saturday March 11, 2017 @01:39PM (#13846537)
"anyone who has an interest in it in the future" is a very vague term. I'm confident lots of things will happen in crypto centuries after I die, but that's not in my threat model.
Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by cJ0th on Saturday March 11, 2017 @01:49PM (#13846583)
Neither do I care about what happens in a couple of centuries. My main worry is that in a somewhat foreseeable future data of electronic communications can be used to construct a model of how a society of interest works to a degree useful enough to attack/control it.

So it isn't necessarily about what I am communicating or to whom I talk but the fact that it seems impossible for society as a whole the hide the details of its functioning.

I viewed pgp/gpg as a tool that could counter this. Convincing people to use it would've been an uphill battle but there would have been a slim chance of succeeding to a useful degree.