[messaging] Do quantum attacks/algos also lead to compromise of PFS?

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 10:42:19 PST 2015


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Tao Effect <contact at taoeffect.com> wrote:

> So, I understand that QM algos can pretty much dismantle all popular
> asymmetric encryption algos with enough q-bits, but I haven't thought hard
> enough to see if they also can be used to compromise communications that
> used DH to do PFS underneath the initial handshake.
>

I wrote a blog post about this a couple years ago FWIW:

http://tonyarcieri.com/imperfect-forward-secrecy-the-coming-cryptocalypse

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Tony Arcieri
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