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

[Tao Effect]

On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wrote a blog post about this a couple years ago FWIW:
> 
> http://tonyarcieri.com/imperfect-forward-secrecy-the-coming-cryptocalypse



Thanks for sharing that Tony!

In that post, you wrote:

"More good news: quantum computers suck at breaking symmetric encryption"

Do you have a citation for that? It conflicts with what I've heard from others.

(Anyone else, feel free to jump in if you happen to know the answer.)

Cheers,
Greg

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