Timeline for Why are we using RSA although it will be cracked by quantum computers?
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| Dec 23, 2021 at 19:56 | comment | added | user163495 | @NikolaTesla The human race is, as history shows, reacting to threats, rather than proactively trying to prevent them. We had a lot of lethal car accidents, before we invented seatbelts. It's the same with crypto: Only when quantum crypto becomes a genuine, immediate threat, then we will act. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | Steffen Ullrich | @NikolaTesla:: Once every traffic can be reversed most of the information which could have been collected are irrelevant anyway. Don't overestimate the value of your data compared to the costs needed to decrypt these. Anyway, it is not that all blindly trust the existing algorithms. Active research is done and standardization are done for post-quantum cryptography for several years. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:37 | comment | added | NikolaTesla | @amon Yes true but you get my point. Everyday critical information is shared. Its a long way, but there is a way. Im not an expert but I think I have enough knowledge to understand the issue. Imagine what could happen once every traffic can be reversed. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | Steffen Ullrich | @NikolaTesla: "And compromising, backdoors are just another problem but not an excuse." - Again, there is currently no proven and efficient algorithm, so that one has to use what is available. And again, there are other problems apart from encryption and it makes no sense to focus on protecting against breaking encryption for high costs in the future if one can simply get to the information much cheaper today. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | amon | @NikolaTesla Bank account credentials not an issue if you use 2FA, your visits to adult sites are already public to anyone in an MITM position because TLS does not generally encrypt the domain name, relationships can be inferred through metadata. Quantum computing does not really change anything in your scenarios, and it's a looong way to go until this is a practical threat for individuals. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:28 | comment | added | NikolaTesla | Relevant information for me would be, whats your bank account password, which p*rn sites you visit, whos your 2nd secret girl friend. Meta data is nice but doesnt give a full picture. And compromising, backdoors are just another problem but not an excuse. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:08 | history | answered | Steffen Ullrich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |