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Something for the "Quantum will kill #Bitcoin " crowd: You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/26/quantum_breaking_encryption_rsa/

Adi Shamir, the cryptographer whose surname is the "S" in "RSA", thinks folks need to stop worrying about quantum computing breaking encryption algorithms.

Speaking on the annual cryptographers' panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, he opined that in the 1990s he saw three big issues appear on the security industry's radar: AI, cryptography, and quantum computing. Two out of three had delivered, he said, and quantum computing has yet to show promise and won't for decades to come.

30 years is nothing on the Bitcoin time scale. There will still be block rewards in 2053.

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