[tor-talk] Post Quantum Tor

Kevin Burress speakeasysky at gmail.com
Mon May 28 22:06:05 UTC 2018


Now whether or not all of this power consumption is a coverup for the
quantum capibilities of the NSA is a matter of speculation, but the fact of
the matter is they are breaking encryption and they did spend $2 billion on
a datacenter for that sole purpose.

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Burress <speakeasysky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Okay, a little more grounded, about the Utah datacenter in 2012:
>
> "The NSA project now aims to break the "exaflop barrier" by building a
> supercomputer a hundred times faster than the fastest existing today, the
> Japanese "K Computer." That code-breaking system is projected to use 200
> megawatts of power, about as much as would power 200,000 homes."
>
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/16/nsas-
> new-data-center-and-ultra-fast-supercomputer-aim-to-
> crack-worlds-strongest-crypto/#3d46c8f332e0
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 8:53 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-warns-of-instant-breaking-
>> of-encryption-by-quantum-computers-move-your-data-today/
>>
>> https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography
>> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
>> http://www.etsi.org/news-events/news/947-2015-03-news-etsi-
>> launches-quantum-safe-cryptography-specification-group
>> http://www.pqcrypto.org/
>> https://ianix.com/pqcrypto/pqcrypto-deployment.html
>> https://pqcrypto.eu.org/
>> https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7210-pqchacks
>> https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/805
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