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For Cyph[1], we went with SPHINCS[2] for signing and a combination of McEliece (specifically McBits[3]), NTRU[4], and SIDH[5] for public key encryption. We also considered QcBits[6] as a more space-efficient alternative to McEliece, but it just seemed too new / not well understood for our tastes, and last I saw there was a recent attack on it that hadn't been mitigated yet. Definitely keeping an eye on it for the fut…
Note: there's a few dozen NTRU entries in the post quantum comp.
Post-quantum cryptography
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Re: Post-quantum cryptography
#12You know, I'm actually looking forward to the day that we can break existing cryptography. There's a lot of devices that are consumer unfriendly due to their security. Most famously, video game consoles. If we could break their security, it would open them wide to running custom code without tricky hacks that are inaccessible to the average end user. It would also allow enthusiast devs to release new games on disc an…
Re: Post-quantum cryptography
#13You know, I'm actually looking forward to the day that we can break existing cryptography. There's a lot of devices that are consumer unfriendly due to their security. Most famously, video game consoles. If we could break their security, it would open them wide to running custom code without tricky hacks that are inaccessible to the average end user. It would also allow enthusiast devs to release new games on disc an…
It is a national security risk to allow commercial device makers to lock down the software on these devices and then abandon them in a few years. If in twenty years today's SmartTV has a network vulnerability discovered, the manufacturer (or whoever buys or merges with it) should be liable for updating the SmartTVs, unless it has made the device such that the owner can write and change the code at will.
This law should apply to cars, microwaves, smartphones, computers, washing machines, tractors, game consoles, etc. A twenty percent or more sales tax and perpetual warranty for "closed" platforms. Make it no longer economical to do business the way it currently is done!
Re: Post-quantum cryptography
#14What is the largest integer factorized on quantum computer to this day?
I assume you mean the largest integer factorized: factorizing a prime is pretty pointless. 376289 per https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/59796 , depending what you count and don't count.
Re: Post-quantum cryptography
#15You know, I'm actually looking forward to the day that we can break existing cryptography. There's a lot of devices that are consumer unfriendly due to their security. Most famously, video game consoles. If we could break their security, it would open them wide to running custom code without tricky hacks that are inaccessible to the average end user. It would also allow enthusiast devs to release new games on disc an…