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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement (arstechnica.com)
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New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Lol, it shows the hype quantum computing has sold and how detached the public thought is about it from reality.

I'm friends with two quantum computing researchers and they are pretty sure quantum computing will never be a practical application because of how the noise and errors scale with the system size.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The quantum computing hype is really annoying but we don't know the future. One day there might be a breakthrough in noise reduction. I'd rather signal have post-quantum cryptography and not need it than get blindsided if there is suddenly a qc that can break rsa with shor. Not to mention intelligence agencies doing store now/decrypt later stuff.

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