Will you heed my warnings NOW?He co-authored a paper on the threat to Bitcoin.Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! ...
See, some of the most reputable people in quantum hardware and quantum error-correction — people whose judgment I trust more than my own on those topics — are now telling me that a fault-tolerant quantum computer able to break deployed cryptosystems ought to be possible by around 2029. ...
And I’d say that that makes my own moral duty right now ironically simple and clear: namely, to use my unique soapbox, as the writer of The Internet’s Most Trusted Quantum Computing Blog Since 2005TM, to sound the alarm.
So, here it is: if quantum computers start breaking cryptography a few years from now, don’t you dare come to this blog and tell me that I failed to warn you. This post is your warning. Please start switching to quantum-resistant encryption, and urge your company or organization or blockchain or standards body to do the same.
I say the opposite. There is no need to switch, and there is chance of a break by 2029. But I am not a member of NAS. You have been warned. Check back in four years to see who is right.
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