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dnnddidiejtoday at 9:13 AM1 replyview on HN

Also if you want to keep a secret a secret forever, encrypted but saved data may be easily decrypted in the future. Most secrets though in reality are less useful in X years time.


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lemageduragetoday at 9:29 AM

Theoretically maybe, but there's no indication that a quantum-resistant algorithm can't encrypt something that's secure for the coming million+ years.

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