When should we worry away SHA-256 being solved by quantum computers? Bearing in mind the quantum tech is probably more advanced than publicly announced.

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its weird to me that this is always brought up, we should be worried about ecdsa (maybe), not sha2

🤚 excruse prease ser, why?

Shor’s algorithm speedup can in theory calculate private keys from public keys. I don’t see how grovers search would help much with sha2, and thats not even an interesting attack.

Yeah, that would suck. Didn’t realise that was more susceptible.

Remember Q* and “What did Ilya see?”? With speculation that somehow the maths improvements with AI had somehow worked out P = NP. That would have also sucked.