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    No? Shor’s algorithm breaks RSA and literally anything elliptic curve-based, which covers all conventional asymmetric algorithms. Symmetric algorithms like you listed aren’t effected, but are useless for communication unless you have an asymmetric algorithm or, like, a physical carrier pigeon to share a secret beforehand.

    This is why NIST is currently finalising several post-quantum standards. Which work, but don’t do anything fancy, and have comparatively gigantic primitives you have to send back and forth - i.e. are worse.

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      14 months ago

      What do you mean by useless? These are standard algorithms used everywhere. Get your head out of the sand.

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        Yeah, and they all bootstrap using things like Diffie-Hellman, and intrinsically must. Which are broken by Shor’s algorithm. For example, a TLS connection could use TLS_ECDHE to share a secret and generate a temporary one-time secret, and then move to an AES stream based on that shared secret for the actual data. If a quantum attacker broke that first step, they could read the AES-encrypted data no problem, because they would also have the one-time secret.

        Do you have some choice insults for NIST as well? They’re putting a lot of effort into things like Kyber, but maybe they don’t understand cryptographic protocols as well as you do.