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Re:Better-performing "25519" elliptic-curve cryptography by jonmon6691 on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:21AM (#41532049)
I'm assuming when they say that this improves user experience, that it implies the use case is primarily TLS. In which case store-now-decrypt-later attacks are already considered an urgent threat with regard to post quantum crypto. With FIPS 203 being released and Chrome is already using an implementation based on the draft standard, this seems like this algo (at least for TLS) should be on its way out.
Re:Better-performing "25519" elliptic-curve cryptography by adgjlsfhk1 on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:19PM (#41532624)
No one other than NIST is recommending phasing out pre-quantum crypto. Everyone else is using a combination of pre-quantum and post-quantum because trust in the security and robustness of the post-quantum ecosystem is fairly low.
Re:Better-performing "25519" elliptic-curve cryptography by dlgeek on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:59AM (#41532421)
The industry is moving to a hybrid that mixes classic crypto (including ECC) with post-quantum crypto. AWS has even turned this on in some places - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/aws-kms-a... from 2022 and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/pqtls.... for some details.
Re:Better-performing "25519" elliptic-curve cryptography by jonmon6691 on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:17PM (#41532598)
Thanks I forgot about that. So if understand it right, the idea is to provide some insurance in the case that these relatively young algorithms are broken as they get exposed to more and more cryptanalysis