[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Wired: "How the Feds Could Get Into iPhones Without Apple’s Help"

[Peter Gutmann]

Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com> writes:

>I am slightly amused that no one has brought quantum computers into this
>legal quest.

That's because if you did, you'd have to figure out how to actually do
something useful with them (which includes "just making them work at all"), as
opposed to the current practice of using them as an excuse for hand-wringing
over who has the most cromulent allegedly-quantum-resistant crypto that
everyone needs to throw their currently-deployed crypto away for and start
again.

It would make a fantastic red herring through, "The NSA has said 'quantum
cryptanalysis' and everyone dutifully jumped, obviously they can use that to
get into the phone.  Your move".

Peter.