Just a point of fact: Atom bombs are not implosion weapons. One of the
two 1945 designs used an implosion detonator where large amounts of
ordinary explosives crushed a specially shaped nuclear "core" to trigger
its explosion in ways that humanity should better forget how to do.
This makes it as much an implosion weapon as a six shooter is a
percussion weapon (it does use a percussive hammer to make the cartridge
load detonate).
On 16/10/2025 13:14, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users ranted:
The demise of pre-quantum crypto is likely within our lifetimes
You, maybe. I'm unlikely to see 2055, at which point I'd be 105.
and there is much sensitive info we may have encrypted which is
permanently sensitive.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is bunkum. Go out and buy a
copy of Chuck Hansen's[1] _Swords of Armageddon_ or John Coster-Mullen's
_Atom Bombs_, both of which openly publish details of nuclear weapon
manufacture that, at the time of their writing, the government would
have literally killed to keep secret.
I really doubt you're dealing with secrets more sensitive than radiation
implosion.
So it's not that extreme position to say move to PQC algorithms as
soon as possible.
That's not what have@ wrote. He wrote that everyone needed to migrate
immediately. ("Yesterday," in fact, was the word he used.)
That's an extreme position, and a thoroughly silly one.
In this case we're stuck encrypting the data with a 3-layer
sandwitch
Please don't. This is one of the most amateurish mistakes to make in
cryptographic engineering.
[1] No relation to me.
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