[Cryptography] Two physics experiment questions

[Ron Garret]

> On May 23, 2026, at 3:11 AM, Peter Gutmann via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:
> 
> Secondly, Shor's algorithm is over thirty years old, dating from before when
> some of the people currently working on PQC stuff were born.  What triggered
> the panic over the last few years?

Maybe this:

https://scirate.com/arxiv/2603.28627 <https://scirate.com/arxiv/2603.28627>

In general, despite the overwhelming difficulty of reducing the theory of Shor's algorithm to practice, progress keeps being made, and the history of technology supports the hype-othesis (see what I did there? ;-) that anything that is not provably impossible is inevitable given sufficient time.

rg

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