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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Good points to know about, Ted, George and Steve. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">(Some quoted content truncated for brevity.)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 12:03:33 PM EDT, Ted Kochanski via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div style=""><div id="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523" style=""><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">Ah, but the very stuff of Quantum Computing gives us the ability to build essentially unbreakable Quantum Communications Ciphers which through fundamentally Quantum processes such as entanglement don't depend on large number factoring at all<div><br clear="none"></div><div>While a lot of progress has been made in Quantum Computing there are at present very challenging issues involving noise and Qbit stability limiting their practicality at the scale necessary to break the NIST cyphers</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ted</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523gmail_attr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 9:24 PM Steve Isenberg via LCTG <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523gmail_quote"><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">Good that they are working on it. </div><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">However</div><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">The quantum computers of tomorrow can decode today’s encoded messages and files. Someone grabs today’s encoded files with their PC to save and then decodes them when these quantum computers are ready with their super powerful QC. </div><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">Bitcoin. Blockchain. Etc. </div><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">-steve </div><div style=""><br clear="none"><div class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523gmail_attr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:36 PM George Gamota via LCTG <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><div><p class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);">I personally know Government agencies have been working on this for some time and have involved industry and universities.</span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-US" style=""><p class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);">George<u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">================================================</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font size="3" style="" color="#70aced"><b style="">(etc.) </b></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div id="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523yqtfd39307" class="ydp33f21a0eyiv1703835523yqt1820623467" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">
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