Re:Quantum computers may soon breach blockchain cryptography
by tromp on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:12AM
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> Cryptography experts are somewhat skeptical of the technique’s scalability but aren’t ruling out the possibility of success either.
Not only are they pretty much ruling out the possibility of success [1], but blockchains mostly rely on hardness of elliptic curve discrete log (ECDLP) rather than factoring (RSA).
Not only are they pretty much ruling out the possibility of success [1], but blockchains mostly rely on hardness of elliptic curve discrete log (ECDLP) rather than factoring (RSA).
[1] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6957