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Comment by keepamovin

There'll probably be discovered a class of problems which is hard and Q hard, provably and we'll be set. Something basically new to cryptography, that was tried once in the past but failed until seen through a new light of more recent maths or research fashion.

But until then it seems to me like something based on the difficulty of attacking hash functions would be a good bet for Q resistant. Totally unsure how to make a PK scheme from that, but it has a few nice properties:

- hashes are often tuneable, you can add more state and increase the keyspace/security

- good hashes don't have any weaknesses that Q can exploit

- hashes are often pretty fast

- hashes are well studied

- hashes seem to be hard in C and hard in Q

parent keepamovin 2 years ago

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