Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted Web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the now-common joke in cryptography circles observes,...