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[Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?
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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 15:40:08 -0700
From: Tony Arcieri <[email protected]>
To: Ray Dillinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Crypto <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ray Dillinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> And IIRC, pretty much every asymmetric ciphersuite (including all public-
> key crypto) is vulnerable to some transformation of Shor's algorithm that
> is in fact practical to implement on such a machine.
Lattice-based (NTRU) or code-based (McEliece/McBits) public key systems are
still considered "post-quantum" algorithms. There are no presently known
quantum algorithms that work against these sorts of systems.
See http://pqcrypto.org/
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