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Comment by colmmacc

Hybrid schemes give you improved security against algorithmic flaws. If either algorithm being used is broken, the other gives you resilience. But hybrid schemes also double (or more) your exposure to ordinary implementation bugs and side-channels.

Since Quantum Computers at scale aren't real yet, and those kinds of issues very much are, you'd think that'd be quite a trade-off. But so much work has gone into security research and formal verification over the last 10 years that the trade-off really does make sense.

parent colmmacc 1 year ago

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