On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 02:52:17PM -0400, Jameson Lopp wrote: > Correct, this time is different in that we're not talking about vague > unknown weaknesses. Rather, we're talking about a known algorithm that > makes breaking cryptographic primitives orders of magnitude cheaper.
We already have known algorithms that would break cryptographic primitives if sufficiently good analog computers actually existed. Or for that matter, "split the universe" brute forcing. No-one is worried about them because "sufficiently good" analog computers and multiverses are widely belived to not be physically realizable. For all the claims of progress on quantum computing hardware, the fact still remains that no-one is even close to demonstrating cryptographic-relevant quantum computing capabilities and the actual cryptographic-relevant capabilities of real hardware are laughable. It's still an unknown whether or not they are physically possible, and outside of the part of the physics community that would like to sell you a quantum computer - or research developing one - they're widely belived to be not physical. Hence, these are still vague unknown weaknesses. Until progress is less vague, actively freezing peoples' coins is not going to happen. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Bitcoin Development Mailing List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bitcoindev/aHuKIKqvCZl5rcEX%40petertodd.org.
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