[Cryptography] Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks

[Peter Gutmann]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> writes:

>Is it OK to pass this deck to other people?
>
>A conference I'm working on is planning a big session on post-quantum
>encryption and I'm hoping to persuade them that there are better uses of
>their time.

Sure!  As the recently-updated last slide now says:

  Ignoring bad ideas doesn’t make them go away; they will still eat up
  funding. […] Killing ideas is a necessary part of science.  Think of it as a
  community service
    — Sabine Hossenfelder, “Lost in Math”

Peter.