<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 23, 2026, at 3:11 AM, Peter Gutmann via cryptography <<a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com" class="">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Secondly, Shor's algorithm is over thirty years old, dating from before when<br class="">some of the people currently working on PQC stuff were born. What triggered<br class="">the panic over the last few years?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Maybe this:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://scirate.com/arxiv/2603.28627" class="">https://scirate.com/arxiv/2603.28627</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>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.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>rg</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>