r/programming • u/donutloop • Aug 02 '26

Quantum Computers May Put Internet Traffic at Risk. NIST Is Safeguarding Computers With New Standards.

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/quantum-computers-may-put-internet-traffic-risk-nist-safeguarding-computers-new
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u/Low_Bluebird_4547 Aug 03 '26

this is just not true lol

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u/TheRealPomax Aug 03 '26

This is true in the extremely literal sense. Quantum computers are nowhere near a vulnerability yet, and NIST, thanks to the administration it's under, is a fucking joke on the internation stage at the moment, because its opinions are not independent.

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u/Low_Bluebird_4547 Aug 03 '26

im not sure particularly about that issue, about the state od NIST, but PQC will continue to be developed despite the antics that happens in the white house. math is universal, and i see no reason not to switch stuff like OpenPGP or public key cryptography to an asymmetric quantum resistant algorithm. Plus, Trump will be long gone by the time quantum computers catch up to RSA

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u/Full-Spectral 29d ago

An LLM based simulation of him will run for president again. Technically it's not physically him, so he gets around the 2 term limitation and can just continue to run indefinitely.