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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:15:22
Message-Id: 2642349.bj4rDNzdNZ@kailua
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys by Andrew Savchenko
1 Am Dienstag 13 Januar 2015, 07:54:16 schrieb Andrew Savchenko:
2 > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:48:41 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:44:46 +0100
4 > >
5 > > Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > Shor's would be effective against discrete logs (including ECC) as
7 > > > well, so wouldn't be applicable to this selection. For post-quantum
8 > > > asymmetric crypto we'd likely need e.g a lattice based primitive.
9 > >
10 > > We're not post-quantum,
11 >
12 > Are you sure? The simplest Shor's factorisation machine was already
13 > built and published in open press:
14 > http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112176
15 > This was done 14(!!) years ago. I don't doubt there was a
16 > significant progress in this field thereafter. But it is likely
17 > that results are classified.
18
19 Lieven's paper 2001 was a milestone but the technology in this case
20 fundamentally didn't scale. So, while there certainly have been advances, they
21 aren't directly based on it, but on completely different experimental
22 approaches.
23
24 http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/
25 If there's any place to look for technological advances, then ^ here.
26
27 (No, not d-wave either. IMHO.)
28
29 --
30 Dr. Andreas K. Huettel
31 Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics
32 University of Regensburg
33 D-93040 Regensburg
34 Germany
35
36 tel. +49 151 241 67748 (mobile)
37 e-mail andreas.huettel@××.de
38 http://www.akhuettel.de/
39 http://www.physik.uni-r.de/forschung/huettel/

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