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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by throw0101d on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:15PM (#42535714)
> Except for the fact (?) that quantum computers will break this encryption […]

Quantum computers will make breaking RSA and Diff-Hellman public key encryption easier. They will not effect things like AES, nor things like hashing:

> Client side vectorization: the photo is processed locally, preparing a non-reversible vector representation before sending (think semantic hash).

And for RSA and DH, there are algorithms being deployed to deal with that:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography...

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