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Comment by anonisko

"Broken" generally isn't a binary event in cryptography.

It's a continuum from "impossible to do with all the time and energy of the universe and the most advanced computers we have" to "my commodity hardware can crack it in a few minutes".

The same goes for fears of quantum computing breaking current cryptography. It goes from effectively impossible to "yeah, we could break it with a few years of constant computation, which is plenty of time to switch to quantum resistant schemes".

parent anonisko 5 years ago

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