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Re:Why 256 bit keys are large enough by Aardwolf on Monday December 17, 2012 @12:35PM (#4933286)
The person quoting Schneier said: "... will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space"

So are quantum computers not from matter and not in space? :)

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Re:Why 256 bit keys are large enough by kluge on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:00PM (#4933420)
They (and Schneier) were talking about symmetric encryption, which does not rely on the things quantum computing is going to affect.
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