{"id":42134,"date":"2025-09-09T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42134"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:49:26","slug":"the-new-math-of-quantum-cryptography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42134","title":{"rendered":"The New Math of Quantum Cryptography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BetterQuantumSecrets-crWei-AnJin-Lede.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"159\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-new-math-of-quantum-cryptography\/\">The New Math of Quantum Cryptography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>i asked <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/gemini\/share\/42c8b17bc479\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini+ to explain the asymetrical nature of the algoritms<\/a>: tl;dr: it is trivial to multiply two 100-digit number (microseconds) but exceptionally difficult to derive the primes from the ?200-digit prime (on the order of 10^22 or more ops, or billions of years, so effectively unpossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[49,530,723],"class_list":["post-42134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-crypto","tag-quantum-stuff","tag-whoa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42137,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42134\/revisions\/42137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}