[Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 20:43:39 -0400 I wrote:
> To my knowledge, there is no ECC analog of Shor's algorithm.

...and it appears I was completely wrong on that.

See, for example: http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/0301141

Senility gets the best of us.

Perry