Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/quantum_cryptanalysis_criticism/

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…

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krogoth@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

«PQC...isn't mathematics or engineering, it's augury: 'A great machine shall arise, and it will cast aside all existing cryptography, there shall be Famine, Plague, War, and a long arable field.'»

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otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

...there shall be Famine, Plague, War, and a long salted field, barren of fucks.

FTFY