<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue., 28 Feb. 2017 at 4:01 am, Brent Allsop <<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@gmail.com">brent.allsop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>All you quantum computer experts.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>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?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Post-quantum cryptography is apparently a field of study:</div><div><br></div><div><div>


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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography</a></span></p>


</div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>