Heffalump Hackerz - Woozle Wizards - NIST Quantum Cryptography
Enjoy some humor regarding ‘quantum hysteria’ and ‘quantum scaremongering’.
Quick expert critique of quantum computers and quantum cryptography:
On the Heffalump Threat (short single-page essay)
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/heffalump_crypto.pdf
Short 3-minute video (aptly portrays quantum hysteria)
https://youtu.be/CLnADKgurvc
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What makes you think someone won’t manage to develop a performant large-scale quantum computer in the next hundred years? Just 90 years ago standard computers were still more or less electromechanical arithmetic machines.
Are you psychic or clairvoyant? What makes you think you have any idea what I think? Who is this person that tries to put word in my mouth and thoughts in my head?
What makes you think that heffalumps and woozles won’t be discovered in the next hundred years?
#NIST #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #HeffalumpHackerz #WoozleWizards
Because that is the necessary condition for the primary attack people are worried about right now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later. We have plenty of information that could still be damaging if decrypted in 100 years.
FYI, there seems to be some suspicion that this post crashes the Sync for Lemmy Android app: https://midwest.social/comment/7715817
The snac developer has tested it and found no bugs in snac nor in several other tested clients.
https://comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/1709505186.073452
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/p/1709503790.569973After brief investigation I have concluded that invisible quantum heffalumps and woozles are the culprits.
Why does this post crash Sync?
Figured it out. What fediverse software are you registered with? The app doesn’t know what to make of it. It has no issues with kbin or mastadon.
What did you figure out?
They’re registered on a different activitypub software and I don’t think sync knows how to parse it.
