[Cryptography] Has quantum cryptanalysis actually achieved anything?

[Wendy M. Grossman]

On 24/02/2025 20:59, Ron Garret wrote:
> I wouldn't consider that a failed prediction.  He was only off by about
> 40 years.  Compare that to, say, flying cars and it looks pretty good,
> especially when you consider that a world-champion chess machine today
> costs a few hundred dollars and fits in your pocket (and is also a
> communicator and a tricorder).

Sometime in the last few years of his life, I asked John McCarthy if 
he'd had any idea when he helped convene the Dartmouth event in 1956 
that it would take so long.

"No! I thought we'd have it all wrapped up in six months."

wg
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