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05 February 2012

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"Given their power to intercept and disrupt secret communications, it is not surprising that quantum computers have the attention of various U.S. government agencies. The National Security Agency, which supports research in quantum computing, candidly declares that given its interest in keeping U.S. government communications secure, it is loath to see quantum computers built. On the other hand, if they can be built, then it wants to have the first one.”

Prof Seth Lloyd of MIT, MIT Review 2008

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"Many applications stay in use for much longer than anticipated, but during the extended lifetime they will be functioning in an environment for which they have not been designed, resulting in completely new vulnerabilities and risks."
SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007
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Florence Luy asks the question: "Is the writing on the wall for 1024-bit (RSA) encryption?"
Dutch mathematician Hendrik Willem Lenstra: "The answer to that question is an unqualified yes."

Florence Luy, Hendrik Lenstra, “A mighty number falls”, 21 May 2007, École Polytechnicque Fédérale de Lausanne

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Symmetric Primitives ( 1 Article )

Facts and frequently asked questions about symmetric cryptography. Block ciphers, stream ciphers and hash functions are symmetric operations. A symmetric keyed operation is where the sender and receiver share a common key to perform encoding and decoding of a message. Examples include DES and AES. A symmetric unkeyed operation is where the sender and receiver call the same cryptographic operation on a message. For example the SHA hash function.
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Facts and frequently asked questions about public key cryptography. Public key cryptography is where there are two mathematically related keys (private and public) used to perform encryption and digital signature operations. Examples include RSA, D&H, ECC.

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