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gamebak on Jan 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could cra...

I didn't know when it was going to happend but i knew it would. That 80m investment is nothing, imagine if they will use it to crack sha256 from bitcoins ? A 9-10 billion "business" opened for them. Plus, privacy = lost

tptacek on Jan 3, 2014 [–]

Quantum cryptanalysis doesn't meaningfully threaten SHA256.

nly on Jan 3, 2014 | [–]

But it does threaten ECDSA used by Bitcoin.

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