nonsense. SHA-1 got deprecated years before anyone was able to demonstrate attacking it in real life. and we are even worse off now because we are working on a computer program that is extremely difficult to change, even for benign things like CTV. so there is nothing wrong with starting the work now.
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What are you deprecating!?!
ECC?? ECDSA?
WHAT DOES SHA HAVE TO DO WITH THIS!?!
Are we talking about quantum? Are we talking about parallel classical compute?!? Are we talking about hash collisions?
Are we talking about championing shors??
What the fuck does it mean to have a quantum computer… do you even know?
Quantum computers are like these mad things tho still.
for starters, when you read the quantum computing resistance proposals they are usually structured as creating a new address format secured by a different signature. you wouldn't have to switch to it immediately. some people would try it out and see if it doesn't do anything bad. then after some time passes, something else could happen, such as a confiscation or a rate limit. none of the proposals advocate doing this part immediately.
I think you will have a more meaningful back and forth with others on the topic if you actually discuss the proposals that are out there and address the parts you find objectionable.
The part of objectionable is making any changes based on a non existent threat… that’s my issue. Everyone keeps repeating “we don’t know if quantum computers are feasible”
But, the open source boys working on parallel compute seem to and so do the astrophysicists
Only in bitcoin are we terrified of this threat… so who is funding this narrative? That is my question because you’re welcome to say what you want but why would I engage in discourse when the papers are bullshit?
Theoretical physics cannot be disproven …. You’re asking me to engage in a task where I eat my own tail
While bringing into question battle tested ECC that has no ties to the NSA (secp256k1) and no disclosed backdoors or vulns to date in its curve…
That’s what you’re telling me to do. It you don’t even know that much… you don’t even understand what you’re asking of me
The only quantum that exists is quantum leap http://blossom.happytavern.co/c853fe6de70df2237b6fc884d3e4a648d4479b79d0dcf947eb21f63ca5dbf31f
Exactly.