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		hannob on Feb 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons from the History of Attacks on Secure Hash... They're far older than 2000. My point was: Modern ECC (X25519 and friends) are the only post-2000 invented mainstream algs where any realistic breakage is in sight.

CiPHPerCoder on Feb 25, 2017 [–]

And only if large quantum computers are possible. If it turns out they're not, X25519/Ed25519 are safe.

But I'm not willing to be the farm on that risk. PQCrypto, please. :)

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