0age
@0age
imagine ECDSA is demonstrated to be broken by quantum computing tomorrow now everyone’s scrambling to move funds into a smart wallet with quantum-resistant signature verification ASAP what’s the best implementation of this currently out there? does one even exist?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
curious if @vitalik.eth has thought about this
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EmpiricalLagrange
@eulerlagrange.eth
Sha256 and similar hash functions are considered quantum safe. STARKs use hash functions heavily and so are also considered quantum safe. So in a pinch you could hard fork an upgrade where everyone switches to a new key, and a zk proof of knowledge is used for the new private key instead of normal signatures.
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0age
@0age
i'm thinking no time for hard fork, like literally being blindsided and seeing coins start moving out of big accounts granted, everything likely goes to zero in this scenario but my point is what could one individual do to protect themselves from falling victim before social coordination can step in
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Pablob
@pablob
This scenario would never happen as who ever cracks encryption would likely behave intelligently to avoid being detected for as long as possible. The attacker has an incentive to not send everything to zero. Kind of like the movie enigma
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Pablob
@pablob
So you’re best off trying to protect from this sort of attack as soon as possible in any case.
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