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by anchpop 1961 days ago
Would it be any more complicated for banks than enabling this [0] (or whatever comes after it) in their webservers and asking visitors to use Chrome?

[0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-p...

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Yes, by several orders of magnitude. The problem isn’t just browsers, it’s the massive pile of code that runs all these systems on the backend, many of which run on honest to god mainframes. You’re not going to flip a switch and get decades worth of software to run quantum proof encryption.
Wouldn't it just need to be the network transport that needs to be updated? I don't imagine the mainframe databases are encrypted-at-rest as it is, so how would quantum change anything there?
Yes, it’s mostly network transit that’s the problem. The issue is that there is a lot of network transit behind the scenes that’s not going through nginx and a client browser.