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"Thirty-Year-Old Encryption Formula Can Resist Quantum-Computing Attacks That Defeat All Common Codes"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Muffett)
Sat Aug 21 11:39:10 2010
From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:55:42 +0100
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
This may[1] be relevant to your interests; alas I am not fit to review =
the math...
=
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/quantum-computer-proof-da=
ta-encryption-researchers-look-formulat-created-1978
That QC currently defeats "all common codes" was unknown to me; I must =
get round to dumping all my credit cards.
-a
[1] ...or may not...
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