[Cryptography] Two physics experiment questions

Bill Stewart billstewart at pobox.com
Mon May 25 02:21:40 EDT 2026


On 2026-05-23 17:14, Jon Callas wrote:
> (5) Now you have a community of people all over -- encryption people are building new algorithms,
 > because that's what they do. The physics people did experiments
 > because that's what they do.

I get the impression that, while the physics parts are going slowly,
the PQC algorithms have been starting to get, if not as fast as RSA,
at least much less impractically huge as the early attempts,
many of them with public keys that can fit in an Ethernet packet,
and Moore's law (even with AI temporarily making market 
price/performance decline instead of improving :-) means they're 
implementable and possibly even practical.


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