Should I be using gpg or gpg2?

Guan Xin guanx.bac at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 10:52:56 CEST 2015


On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Robert J. Hansen <rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:
> Please respond on-list; I generally don't like answering questions off-list.

Sorry, was too sleepy last night and did not click on "Reply to all".


>  So if ECC falls, well -- so will RSA.

Ok quite clear, that means if RSA falls, so had ECC already.


> If we ever reach the point where we have large-scale quantum computers,
> the solution isn't going to be RSA: it's going to be quantum-resistant
> algorithms like McEliece or lattice cryptography or Goppa codes or
> Lamport signatures or...

Didn't know these cryptosystems before.
Thanks very much for pointing out to these keywords! This is readlly helpful.

Guan



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