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#quantumcryptography

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I was just ranting about #QKD in a chat with someone, when I compared quantum-resiliant cryptography with quantum key distribution like this, and noticed that I really like this summary:

If you want to go 500 meter down the street you can either take your bike or call a helicopter to your place, have it hover over your home, climb up a rope ladder, have it fly you those 500 meters and dis-rope.
Both of these get you to your destination, but one of them is faster, cheaper, less complicated, relying on more established infrastructure, scales better and is just about superior in every relevant regard. And it’s not the helicopter/QKD.

#crypto #cryptography #pqc #quantumcryptography #QuantumKeyDistribution

One of the most infuriating things about #QuantumComputing related stuff is that #QuantumComputers being theoretically able to break factoring and DLog (aka: most asymmetric crypto in current use) using Shor’s algorithm is used as a selling point for #QuantumCryptography (QC) or #QuantumKeyDistribution (#QKD).

The two topics really have nothing to do with each other, the solution for dealing with the broken schemes is to replace them with non-broken ones.

If we want QKD, there has to be a DIFFERENT motivation for it, that has nothing to do with Shor’s algorithm.

Somehow we have allowed the presentation to become “after classical crypto choose #PostQuantumCrypto (#PQC) or QKD”, instead of “keep using classical crypto that is secure against known attacks or switch to QKD”.

In line with that we should also increasingly move to stop talking about PQC, and just talk about secure #cryptography, because that is really all it is.