Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm

Re:Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm by im3w1l on Friday December 05, 2014 @10:44PM (#8708270)

Announce a transition time a few years into the future so the miners don't get a capital loss. Code clients to switch over to the new algorithm at the transition time. When the transition finally comes, even those with slightly out of date client will switch over, since it was coded far in advance.

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Re:Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm by glomph on Saturday December 06, 2014 @03:37PM (#8710111)

Wouldn't this require quantum computing to be developed relatively gradually and in the open? Seems likely that a gov or company will suddenly reveal it or have it exposed.

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Re:Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm by api on Saturday December 06, 2014 @04:32PM (#8710289)

Sudden, catastrophic leak of an operational QC would definitely be a cryptogeddon scenario.

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