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If they can break 256-bit #encryption, cracking #bitcoin is not the biggest problem we have. The whole digital economy or just economy might collapse, with no trusted transactions online. techradar.com/news/quantum-c…
Remember PGP or GPG? Can still use it for your own encrypted messages. You can even check the full OpenPGP.js code if you want to. #encryption #privacy aliceandbob.io
Not entirely sure why we refer to #blockchain as unhackable. There are well known “hacks” as well as new bugs here and there. technologyreview.com/2019/02/19/239…
When will quantum computing start doing something useful? Like cracking #crypto keys? Another 20 years? #quantumsupremacy technologyreview.com/s/614608/googl…
First book I read about encryption in 1995. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy by Simson Garfinkel amazon.co.uk/dp/1565920988/… via @AmazonUK
Ability to encrypt transactions defeats the point of using #Blockchain, but if that makes bankers happy to adopt… investopedia.com/news/zero-know…
#TheresaMay doesn’t seem to understand that it’s not feasible to limit the use of cryptography by terrorists or baddies. Not about politics.
Generally speaking, the same maths behind #cryptography is used for both authentication and #encryption. Can’t easily just ban one of them.