> At the start of the year, I read that the NSA (which is doing serious > R&D in this field) recommended taking post-quantum computing more seriously: > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/02/more_details_on_2.html
Great. Take a look at this line from them: "Given the level of interest in the cryptographic community, we hope that there will be quantum resistant algorithms widely available in the next decade. NSA does not recommend implementing or using non-standard algorithms, and the field of quantum resistant cryptography is no exception." Right now there are zero standards for QRC. If we were to implement it, I hope our users would have the good sense to revolt and switch to Mailpile. Once there are standards and those standards are incorporated into the OpenPGP RFCs, we'll support it -- but not sooner. > I've been reading up on this, but yet to find people integrating these > tools into real applications. "NSA does not recommend ... using non-standard algorithms, and the field of quantum resistant cryptography is no exception." Proceed at your own risk: you've been warned. > or cryptographer, the best way that I can help is adapt the Enigmail > code to generate e-mail signatures from one of these systems. You're free to run your own fork of Enigmail if you want, but we're not going to have anything to do with QRC for the time being, not even if you send us patches. :) _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
