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In this post I give a brief assessment of progress in the past decade, triggered by a recent article in Forbes Magazine that mentions my view on the matter. Waging War On Quantum - A Forbes Article by Arthur Herman Arthur Herman is a popular Historian and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. On...
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A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can-although they have not yet done so-break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it's not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shor's algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy. But it takes a big quantum computer, on the orders of millions of qbits, to factor anything resembling the key sizes we use today. What the researchers have done is combine classical lattice ...
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An interview with UT computer scientist and OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson.
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[AI summary] This technical blog post explains the mathematical principles, key generation, and implementation details of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) covering domain parameters, verifiably random curves, ECDH key exchange, and ECDSA signatures.
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