Re:Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography ...
by sesm on Thursday February 01, 2024 @10:50AM
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One can be paranoid in a completely different direction, like “any quantum computer can’t survive long enough to perform any useful computation because objective collapse theories are right, the whole post-quantum cryptography exists to push implementations with backdoors injected by government”.
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Re:Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography ...
by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:01PM
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I have this type of tinfoil hat. I put it on whenever I see people blindly merging security fixes in response to vulnerability scans.
Re:Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography ...
by KMag on Thursday February 01, 2024 @01:10PM
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We're likely to see hybrid PQ + ECDH key exchange for the foreseeable future, running the pair of exchanged values through a hash-based key derivation function.
Partially due to fears of backdoors, but also out of caution because the mathematics of PQ cryptography has seen much less attention than DH / ECDH / RSA cryptography.
For a long time, there was similar conservative skepticism regarding ECDH.