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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:48:20AM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> Georgi Guninski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > second, it is not known even if P â?  NP, can a sufficiently
> > powerful quantum computer solve SAT efficiently? -- if the 
> > answer is ``yes'' djb & co fail.
> 
> And yet a quantum computer efficiently solving SAT would be
> substantially more surprising than P=NP!
> 

ok, this is the popular scientific opinion, i am noob at
complexity theory.

just to point out that if a deity offers me crypto stuff 
that is breakable in polynomial time, but provably not less
than say O(n^1000), i wouldn't care about P vs NP and will
choose $n$ large enough, might be wrong.


> Quantum computation is not magic; the limits of quantum mechanics
> already imply relatively strong lower bounds for quantum hash
> collision search.
> 
> -=rsw