Quantum computing essay, from bombe analogy to Shor, with the usual correction that superposition is not brute-force parallelism.
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01 02 The scary bit is the archives, not the live traffic, harvest-now-decrypt-later turns today's TLS into tomorrow's loot.03 ePrint paper on a lattice attack against generalized cubic Pell RSA, recovering keys past the old bound. Cute.04 Long explainer tying Enigma and the bombe to quantum threats against RSA, ECC, and DH, because keys are only aspirational.05 June 2026 crawl of the Tranco Top 1M, with the usual TLS hygiene stats plus the first broad post-quantum hybrid key exchange sightings.06 Schneier reports on RSA moduli with repeating zero blocks in the wild, because apparently entropy was optional.07 Large-scale scan finds RSA moduli with repeated zero blocks in the wild, a weirdly specific failure mode beyond the usual weak keys.08 FT partner article on banks' post-quantum migration from RSA/ECC, with NIST and hybrid plans. Cryptography gets a calendar now.09 Pseudonym Scheme Based on Hybrid Certificates for Security Credential Management System in Vehicular Communications arxiv.orgArXiv paper on hybrid pseudonym certs for vehicular credential management, benchmarking ECC, RSA, and PQC. Cars needed PKI, apparently.