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Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Sep 7 20:45:40 2013
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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 20:45:34 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 13:06:14 -0700
Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to beat quantum computers, we need to use public key systems
> with no (known) quantum attacks, such as lattice-based (NTRU) or
> code-based (McEliece/McBits) algorithms. ECC and RSA will no longer
> be useful.
I'm unaware of an ECC equivalent of the Shor algorithm. Could you
enlighten me on that?
Perry
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