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maqptoday at 2:44 AM1 replyview on HN

Probably not. It's been ~13 years when Snowden said what the NSA is doing is going around the encryption by hacking endpoints. Post quantum cryptography doesn't change any of that. You can still lift TLS keys with exploits for transparent MITM. I'd imagine it's much better ROI to look for vulnerabilities with Mythos, than to attack the algorithms.


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g-b-rtoday at 3:31 AM

> is going around the encryption by hacking endpoints

Because they weren't (supposedly) able to break the encryption

> than to attack the algorithms

You have an opportunity to introduce new, broken, algorithms; they exploited it with DES, tried to exploit it with ECC, why wouldn't they try it with post-quantum (which they've kind of been pushing)?