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No more rocket science, I'm moving to Post-Quantum encryption any day now...
tuta.com/blog/post-quantum-cry…

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Post Quantum Cryptography: Why We Need Resistant Encryption NOW.

Quantum-resistant or post-quantum cryptography is our best bet against attacks from upcoming quantum computers to increase security and privacy.
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Jörn Franke
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I would use a pre-quantum (e.g. EC) and post-quantum (e.g. KYBER) at the same time. The math behind KYBER Is rather new and other algorithms in the NIST competition have been cracked (rather late in the process!) in a couple of hours on classical hardware.
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Tuta
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@jornfranke That's exactly what we do; it's a hybrid protocol using both new and 'old', proven algorithms.
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It kind of boggles my mind how quantum safe encryption is even a thing that can be achieved, especially without the use of quantum computing itself.

Does anyone know a good basic primer for someone who understands standard encryption (just) but isn't any kind of computer scientist / theoretical mathematician etc?
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Not... really.

The blog post says what projects are being used to encrypt, but the only mention of how is one sentence about that they use problems considered "too difficult" for a quantum computer to figure out. There's no mention, not even a sentence, of what kind of problem or why it would be difficult, which is exactly what I'm wondering.

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