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Re: [lamps] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on charter-ietf-lamps-02-00: (with COMMENT)

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Wed, 23 May 2018 19:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lamps] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on charter-ietf-lamps-02-00: (with COMMENT)
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On 5/23/18 1:13 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> 4. Specify the use of a pre-shared key (PSK) along with other key
> management techniques with supported by the Cryptographic Message
> Syntax (CMS) as a near-term mechanism to protect present day
> communication from the future invention of a large-scale quantum
> computer.
>
> I found it confusing because "near-term" isn't "near-term from now", it's
> "near-term after the invention of quantum computing destroys civilization.

My understanding is that the intention is "near-term from now." The idea 
is that LAMPS should develop something that you could use, say, next 
year to encrypt email you send so that, 15 years from now when someone 
finally builds a 4,000 qubit machine, they can't dig out your (then) 
14-year-old email and decrypt it.

/a

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