On Saturday, April 30, 2016 01:20:56 AM [email protected] wrote:
> Warning: Non-techie speaking. ;)
> 
> Briefly seen through your work.
> Regarding considering improvements for the future, maybe it's a good idea to
> also concider the prospect of exchanging freenet's/WOTs crypto algorithm
> with post-quantum cryptography solutions figured out by pqcrypto.org . It
> probably won't make the used algorithm process faster than it is now, but
> would highen the user's tolerance for waiting relative long. Then users
> would thing 'gosh, that lasts long, but hey, it's quantum secure, so what
> do you want...'. I mean we have the year 2016 now and reports from
> australia present the prospect of 2018 to be the year in which the first
> universal quantum computer will be ready.
> 
> Here's a great introduction video for what pqcrypto is doing to make sure
> we'll also have secure systems when the era of universal quantum computers
> starts. Title: djb, Tanja Lange: PQCHacks
> Video link: https://youtu.be/-LlkJZJ5DMQ
> discription: A gentle introduction to post-quantum cryptography
> This is a talk of the cutting edgy group working on securing working crypto
> in post-quantum era (starting btw. 2018-2027). A lot of smart heads meet
> every year for this and this talk sums up the status quo, gives a preview
> into the future and provides useful information for implementing practical
> (but not optimal) post-quantum cryptography solutions right now.
> 
> Most recent infos of pqcrypto: Their 2016 conference, which took place 2
> months ago - https://pqcrypto2016.jp/

Thanks! WoT does not do any cryptography at all, crypto is fully encapsulated 
in the Freenet core layer ("fred"). I currently do not work on that.

Thus, if you want to get this noticed, you should start a separate thread.

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