Title: qubitcoin - quantum bitcoin Post by: bitcoinBull on March 22, 2011, 10:10:00 AM Quantum computing device hints at powerful future
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811199 We're gonna need a qubitcoin. EDIT: Nevermind. we'll just need to increase the key size. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography EDIT2: NM2. The ECDSA public key crypto in bitoin is vulberable. See discussion here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3008.msg71589#msg71589 |