Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> writes: >Recent theoretical progress on reducing the resource requirements (logical >qbits, and circuit sizes, i.e. gate counts and time) for breaking 256-bit ECC >with Shor's algorithm, may have reduced the perceived value of the ECC >components of hybrids for some QC "optimists" who were betting on CRQC's to >show up in O(decade), but now think it may much sooner than previously >expected.
It's yet another paper, following 25 years of well-established precedent, that begins with the authors gazing into the middle distance and saying "assuming we have a functioning magic device" and then constructing some elaborate framework based on this imaginary device. Except that in this case they're not even telling us what the framework for the imaginary device is. There's a page or two of vague generalising about what they can do towards the start, and the remainder of the 57-page paper is telling us how terrible things will be if the magic works. We can't even get someone to perform the same astounding feat of mathematics as a barking dog or an abacus yet because no-one knows what's been discovered. The real breakthrough in the paper seems to be the elaborate means they've come up with to hide what they've actually done. So I'm not losing any sleep over it. Peter. _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
