alt Hacker News> We can go through years of this SHA-1 to SHA-256 migration and then quantum computers break 256 and we're back in the same stupid boat again.
SHA-256 is considered quantum safe by the NIST and is left out of PQC migration guidance entirely.
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ghusto • yesterday at 6:38 PM
Until it isn't.
Things like this have a tendency to to be revised as time passes.
TheRealPomax • yesterday at 6:11 PM
For now. Turns out the pigeon hole principle still holds.
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It was theoretical - the point was that maybe some paper is published or some new tech or issue comes up. Now we have to do this again. If we separate the concerns, then we don't have to deal with both as though they're one problem. We can deal with one thing for content addressing and another for trust and security.