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Quantum threat to cryptography does actually worry me a lot for Bitcoin, we can’t simply react to it quickly. Changing Bitcoin is super hard normally, then even once post-q cryptography is available the entire UTXO set needs to transact to be safe. Don’t know if it’s possible to add new cryptography as a soft fork (maybe as a future taproot version?) so a hard fork will be more contentious still. It will take years.
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frphank 1 year ago
Never understood how likely and how soon this "post quantum" event was going to happen. I see very little literature on that. Plus also the cost and feasibility of this harvest-now-decrypt-later approach.
I mean seriously it’s not like Jack and I are out there talking about like how we’ve been asked for walking all our lives or anything I mean come the fuck on android Bros always say that go fuck yourself
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nobody 1 year ago
"problem that doesn't exist yet" lmfao. sure sure.
Its all irrelevant when Apple (and google) provably knew its push notifications could be read by govnts but kept it secret until forced to disclose it by a legal loophole used by a right minded politician. How much does encryption matter at all on any OS's that are required by law (in UK at least) to provide backdoors to access encrypted information which in all cases does not involve breaking encryption. Trust in PlayStore/AppStore to install encrypted message apps is ludicrous, and any app developer that allows or encourages this cannot be trusted to secure your messages, 'unbreakable' encryption isn't the problem or solution to security on OS's run by 2-3 companies, all of them made in the US.
Unbreakable encryption is irrelevant when an OS or computer chip can read your decrypted message at rest. Its not that encryotion isn't good enough, it is, but its all a misdirection. The problem isn't encryption.