Re: Quantum Crypto redux Re: Boston Linux Meeting ... Crypto News, plus ...

2018-09-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 09/19/2018 10:33 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > QuBits aren't QUITE on the Moore's Law 18-month doubling cycle yet; my > back-of-the-envelope shows going from 7 QuBits to 72 QuBits in 16 years is > doubling in 28 months.  Which is kinda close to Moore's law for RAM (24 > months)... > How soon the e

Quantum Crypto redux Re: Boston Linux Meeting ... Crypto News, plus ...

2018-09-19 Thread Bill Ricker
Elliott is correct that ECC including Curve25519 as well as NIST P-* curves are more affected by QC (Shor's) than RSA ... in part because our classical factoring technology had such a head start, has gotten so good, that RSA keys have gotten huge, but discrete log remained hard, so ECC remains sma