In a world where spying on civilian communication of adversaries (and preventing spying on your own civilians) is becoming more critical for national security interests, i suspect that national governments would be lighting more of a fire if they believe their opponents had one.

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mvkel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They absolutely are. NSA is obsessed with post-quantum projects atm

	▲	GrilledChips 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		tbh they could just be pushing for people to adopt newer, less-tested, weaker algorithms. switch from something battle-hardened to the QuantResist2000 algorithm which they've figured out how to break with lattice reduction and a couple of GPUs like those minecraft guys did.
	▲	tyre 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But is this because they are already needed or because they want to preserve encryption for past and present data post-quantum?

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the8472 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

NSA is pushing for PQ algos.