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Comment by tptacek

5 hours ago

Among cryptography engineers there was a sharp vibe shift over the last 2 months; there are papers supporting that vibe shift, but there's also a rumor mill behind it too. The field has basically aligned fully in a way it hadn't before that this is an urgent concern. The simplest way to put it is that everyone's timeline for a real-world CRQC has shortened. Not everyone has the same timeline, but all those timelines are now shorter, and for some important (based on industry and academic position) practitioners, it's down to "imminent".

> The field has basically aligned fully in a way it hadn't before that this is an urgent concern.

AKA “we want more funding.”

  • There's a simultaneous push coming from the government to support PQC, ASAP, so it's not just researchers pushing this.