Now whether or not all of this power consumption is a coverup for the quantum capibilities of the NSA is a matter of speculation, but the fact of the matter is they are breaking encryption and they did spend $2 billion on a datacenter for that sole purpose.
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Burress <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, a little more grounded, about the Utah datacenter in 2012: > > "The NSA project now aims to break the "exaflop barrier" by building a > supercomputer a hundred times faster than the fastest existing today, the > Japanese "K Computer." That code-breaking system is projected to use 200 > megawatts of power, about as much as would power 200,000 homes." > > https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/16/nsas- > new-data-center-and-ultra-fast-supercomputer-aim-to- > crack-worlds-strongest-crypto/#3d46c8f332e0 > > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-warns-of-instant-breaking- >> of-encryption-by-quantum-computers-move-your-data-today/ >> >> https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography >> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography >> http://www.etsi.org/news-events/news/947-2015-03-news-etsi- >> launches-quantum-safe-cryptography-specification-group >> http://www.pqcrypto.org/ >> https://ianix.com/pqcrypto/pqcrypto-deployment.html >> https://pqcrypto.eu.org/ >> https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7210-pqchacks >> https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/805 >> -- >> tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or change other settings go to >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
