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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by maybeso on Friday August 30, 2013 @04:10PM (#6303915)
That's a possibility. Google has made WebRTC encrypted by default. However, it uses RSA which still isn't the best of choices (15 years in the future, when the NSA builds a usable quantum computer).
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Re:Tech Companies and Government May Soon Go to War Over Sur... by marcosdumay on Friday August 30, 2013 @10:36PM (#6305489)
We have nothing that would survive a quantum computer. RSA is even better than ECC, because it uses longer keys.

But we are very far from a usable quantum computer. I doubt we'll get it in 15 years, and I doubt we'll get it before everything changes because of AI, nanotech, some other disruptive tech, or some kind of doom.

Yes, there is nothing stopping you from using ECC with a 2k bits key. Except that you aren't.

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