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Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool

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Re: Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool

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I'm surprised Docker is the recommended way to run the application – it seems like a lot of hidden magic relative the ~800 actual lines of Go, and given that the resulting keypair is saved outside the container.

Great point - I wrote a docker wrapper for convenience ultimately but you’re right, I’ll rewrite the readme with that in mind.

Re: Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool

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I am seeing more Post Quantum safety measures suddenly, than ever before. I know this was a topic from at least a decade, but it looks like a sudden interest across industry. Did something change? It looks like there was some breakthrough in quantum computers scaling and everyone if given some time before making it public. What could be the reason for this?

record now, decrypt later?

Re: Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Long con for NSA to push post quantum algorithms to displace old non quantum one they couldn't find vulnerability in /s

Any sane implementation (like the tool presented here) uses a hybrid scheme with both non-pq and pq combined. But there seems to be some truth to what you’re saying. Story unfolding: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html

Yeah that's what I was referring.
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