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by lbradstreet 3321 days ago
If that's true, third party middlemen with quantum devices could work around this until it becomes more mainstream. At least it would allow it to not wither on the vine until everything is restructured. It's not really obvious what would happen in any case, but humanity has a way of papering over things.
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Ok. I just wouldn't want to bear that risk and have a dime on any public-digitally-signed protocol. Let alone my savings.
If quantum chips work out then a ton of existing financial infrastructure using non-quantum-resilient security will also fail.