Comment on Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks agoBut isn’t the point that we just need to stay ahead of it. Surely encryption used in the 90s could be broken by a quantum computer today?
embed_me@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I do not know of any such occurrence. I would like to know about it
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
It seems the RSA-155 (512 bit) encryption commonly used in the 90s was broken in 1999, no quantum needed (due to it being based on primes).
Though from what I can search up, reddit users from 10 years ago were confident a 128 bit modern algorithm (e.g. AES) would never be able to be brute forced, even by quantum computers.
I dunno, sometimes I wonder if not everyone on the internet is an expert.