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Comment Re: Long term secrecy: there are much cheaper ways (Score 1) 125

The point about long-term secrecy is interesting, however, it can be cheaply addressed with classical cryptography, in a provably secure way (NOT depending on any computational assumptions like RSA).

http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/hvs.html

You still need more assumptions than with QC, which is why I don't exactly buy this approach, but if you really need long-term security, you might consider this scheme.

As for QC, it is expensive, point-to-point only, and makes sense only if you are worried about somebody breaking RSA or a similar problem. But the worst thing about QC is that we have no practical experience with it. QC may be theoretically unbreakable, but what about all the accompanying software and the normal communication channels that are necessary for QC to work, and standard attacks against those channels? QC is not only quantum transmission, but the whole suite of accompanying (classical) protocols, whose implementation might be seriously broken. We don't know. Why should anyone spend large amounts of money on something that may be, and in the current implementation probably is, broken and not secure at all?

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An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the next version of the venerable Linux 'ext' filesystem is just around the corner. Andrew Morton has added an early version of ext4 to his 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 tree, enabling Linux to support storage volumes up to 1020 petabytes in size, and to write files in 'extents,' or contiguous, reserved areas. According to an article at Linux-Watch, ext4 will be ready for production use within six to nine months, if all goes well. On the downside, the new ext4 filesystem will offer only limited backward compatibility with ext3-aware Linux kernels."

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