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by tptacek 1405 days ago
We're discussing key exchange mechanisms, not signatures. The distinction is important: KEMs are what we need now if QC is a real threat, because they're what enable us to protect traffic from retroactive decryption.
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The encryption side of things does appear to be a lot more challenging. I like solutions which allow complexity to be side-stepped somehow but I'm not aware of anything like that for encryption.