<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Ben Laurie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benl@google.com" target="_blank">benl@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Definitely a deal breaker for HTTPS.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is much more interesting for data-at-rest use cases, especially for what Zooko calls "hundred year cryptography".</div><div><br></div><div>Digital signatures are the only public key component of the "data-at-rest" format of the Tahoe-LAFS distributed filesystem, so if Tahoe changed to hash-based signatures, it could theoretically survive the advent of quantum computers.</div><div><br></div><div>For transport encryption? Probably not ;)</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br>
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