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		glomph on Dec 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm Wouldn't this require quantum computing to be developed relatively gradually and in the open? Seems likely that a gov or company will suddenly reveal it or have it exposed.

api on Dec 6, 2014 [–]

Sudden, catastrophic leak of an operational QC would definitely be a cryptogeddon scenario.

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