• TotesIllegit@pathfinder.social
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    1 year ago

    Once the encryption schemes are broken, it’s not just posterity, but every malicious actor with access to encryption-breaking tech will have a field day.

    I don’t mind a large collection of data about me being made available to historians, I just mind that happening with my contemporaries.

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      1 year ago

      That’s actually the lesser issue, because we have quantum-resistant encryption algorithms already. The problem is with old stuff that was stored encrypted with pre-quantum algorithms.