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Comment by bawolff

7 months ago

Well that sounds theoretically interesting, is there a practical application here? As far as i know traditional hash functions are just as safe in the quantum world as in the classical world (up to a sqrt for grover)

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jasperry  7 months ago

That's also what I heard about traditional one-way hash functions and quantum. It's a theoretical result for now...

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