<div dir="ltr">Not to worry, NIST is on it.<div><a href="https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/future-now-spreading-word-about-post-quantum-cryptography">https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/future-now-spreading-word-about-post-quantum-cryptography</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 1:44 PM Jerome Slate <<a href="mailto:SlateMD@comcast.net">SlateMD@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="4">Sooo, yer sayin' if we borrow one of them quantum
computer things for a coupla daze, we cud get all the block chain
passwords, steal alla the tokens, and take off....<br>
Costa Rica does not have an extradition treaty with the US
government.<br>
Hola, Puero Viejo !<br>
<br>
Jerry Slate</font><br>
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<div>On 6/2/2022 10:03 AM, Steve Isenberg
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So this means
that the security we've been feeling using complex passwords
may end soon.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">According to the
article, quantum computers solve a 9,000 year problem in 36
microseconds. Amazing.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So it could
conceivably solve a 9,000,000 year problem in 36 milliseconds
(36,000 microseconds) or a 250,000,000 year problem in a
second.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">From (<a href="https://vpnalert.com/resources/how-long-does-it-take-to-crack-a-password/" target="_blank">https://vpnalert.com/resources/how-long-does-it-take-to-crack-a-password/</a>)
it would take up to 46,000,000 years to crack a 15 character
password using numbers, upper and lower case letters using a
conventional computer; with a quantum computer this would be
about 1/5 second.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">From (<a href="https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/check-your-password-strength/783192/" target="_blank">https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/check-your-password-strength/783192/</a>)
if you use a 18 character password with numbers, upper &
lower case letters, and symbols it would take a conventional
computer up to 7,000,000,000,000 (7qd) years; a quantum
computer would take up to 28,000 seconds, under 8 hours.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Regards,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)">-steve<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 9:08 AM
<<a href="mailto:palbin24@yahoo.com" target="_blank">palbin24@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div>Interesting overview of the current state of quantum
computing </div>
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<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/02/quantum_advantage_canada/" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/02/quantum_advantage_canada/</a><br>
<br>
<div dir="ltr">Peter</div>
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