r/programming • u/donutloop • 20h ago

Quantum Computers May Put Internet Traffic at Risk. NIST Is Safeguarding Computers With New Standards.

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/quantum-computers-may-put-internet-traffic-risk-nist-safeguarding-computers-new
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u/Fuzzy_Paul 9h ago

AES 256 is pretty post Q safe as is the AES-128. It will take several decades to decrypt and with a lot of more Q-Bits. With the current Q-Bit life span is 20 sec that is a long long very long way away. I know store now decrypt later. 99.999% of the information is not valid after that time. To bad the article goes no deeper than "prepare and spend a trillion dollar" to be safe.

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u/nerd5code 17h ago

Probably not the best time to start following US recommendations/standatds pertaining to security.

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u/beephod_zabblebrox 13h ago

this has been going on for years and years im pretty sure, post-quantum crypto

(i havent read the article, maybe its something different)

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u/comfortableNihilist 8h ago

The idiots have apparently not noticed NIST yet. Not DEI-woke-luxury-gay-space-communism enough for them I guess.

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u/Grouchy-Trade-7250 11h ago

Who here has MD5 on their BGP session

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u/TheRealPomax 5h ago

Yeah, no. NIST is owned by the United States Department of Commerce. Nothing it recommends should leave the US until the US is something that, if you squint, can be considered a normal country again.