[4109] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: quantum cryptanalysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Feb 1 16:39:52 1999
Date: 1 Feb 1999 19:08:36 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: staym@accessdata.com
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <36B5E83C.6331@accessdata.com>
staym@accessdata.com writes:
> Suppose someone discovers a way to solve NP-complete problems with a
> quantum computer; should he publish? Granted, the quantum computers
> aren't big enough yet, but the prospects look bright for larger ones in
> the near future. It would break all classical cryptography.
Absolutely. We'd need the knowledge to create new quantum
cryptography algorithms.
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