Re: Danger Will Robinson ! Aussies Invent Gigabit Quantum-Computing Method, ALL Encryption At Risk SOON

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Danger Will Robinson ! Aussies Invent Gigabit Quantum-Computing Method, ALL Encryption At Risk SOON
Date	2023-01-17 06:51 +0000
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 16/01/2023 21:45, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> 26C.Z968 <26C.Z968@noaada.net> wrote:
>>
>>    There are 'intermediate fixes' ... just ASSUME https is
>>    NOT gonna be totally secure and never transmit files
>>    or bits thereof in the clear assuming https is gonna
>>    take care of things. Final decryption would have to
>>    be shifted to LOCAL PCs. When you look at ANY bits of
>>    a database - yer account/login stuff at Google for
>>    instance - using a browser it would only SEEM to be
>>    clear text ... but instead go thru an additional
>>    symmetric decryption step on yer PC.
> 
> This assumes that some nation-state attacker is interested in your
> Google log-in, and isn't allied with the NSA who could just ask
> Google to let them in anyway. It's still going to be many years
> until quantum computers are within reach of your average hacker
> sorts looking to make things hard for normal people/businesses.
> Quantum-safe encryption schemes will probably be widely adopted
> before that.
> 
> If you're an aerospace company sharing the designs for the latest
> jet fighter over the internet, it's hardly a great idea to just
> rely on HTTPS encryption as the only line of defence anyway.
> 
  26C.Z968 is appearing more irrational by the day.

I think he suffers from an inferiority complex, and wants to make more 
impact on the world than by finding some bird and getting her preggies 
and introducing more little  26C.Z968's to muddy the future.

I've noticed this a lot - especially in the US middle classes. Everybody 
wants to be *someone*. The Man Who Called Himself Jesus. The Man who 
Rewrote  SSH.  Or Wrote Systemd.  The man who can converse fluently 
about the 150 types of tea he has drunk. Or recite the name of every 
baseball player in the 1948 league

I have a friend who can recognise just about every single aircraft every 
built, and not a few that never in fact were.

Others know the history of every steam locomotive ever built.

26C.Z968 simply wants to be *someone*. Why anyone would want to be 
*someone* has always escaped me.

I just want to be sufficiently comfortably off to get bored. And live my 
futile existence in relative luxury.

And not be noticed, if possible.

-- 
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over 
the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that 
authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Frédéric Bastiat

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