Re:Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that ...
by gwern on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:20PM
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> Eventually, quantum computers should be able to eat though any of today's crypto.
Not really; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography A decent chunk of today's crypto is either immune or only weakened a little bit (for example, Bitcoin is mostly immune although the SHA hashes are a little weakened and so hypothetically miners might some day move to quantum computers using Shor's algorithm to mine for matches).
Not really; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography A decent chunk of today's crypto is either immune or only weakened a little bit (for example, Bitcoin is mostly immune although the SHA hashes are a little weakened and so hypothetically miners might some day move to quantum computers using Shor's algorithm to mine for matches).