NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption

Esteban Monge esteban.francisco at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 12:48:20 CET 2014


2014/1/4 Johan Wevers <johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl>

> On 04-01-2014 0:07, Filip M. Nowak wrote:
>
> > “The irony of quantum computing is that if you can imagine someone
> > building a quantum computer that can break encryption a few decades into
> > the future, then you need to be worried right now,” Lidar said. [1]
>
> There exists already quantum-computing resistant crypto algorithms:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRUEncrypt
>
> Perhaps it's about time to start talking about implementing them in GnuPG?
>

May be we can make better encryption algoritms with quantum computers and
will replace actual standards


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