[ExI] 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 22:39:19 UTC 2017


On Tue., 28 Feb. 2017 at 4:01 am, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> All you quantum computer experts.
>
> I know next to nothing about quantum computers.  All I know is that some
> people claim they will be able to render crypto currency security no longer
> secure.  What would you guys give the odds that something like quantum
> computers could sometimes make crypto currencies not work.  And by "not
> work" I mean even if the crypto currencies significantly increase the size
> of the keys, which I would think would be easy for crypto currencies to do,
> i.e. even a quantum computer could never solve a 10K byte key right?
>

Post-quantum cryptography is apparently a field of study:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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