A quantum computing threads loom, Microsoft uodates its core crypto library

[Jan Panteltje]

As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
quote:
The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in Windows and Linux.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Jan Panteltje
As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in Windows and Linux.

Have you ever played around with Q#?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overview

Pretty interesting... :^)

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:12:19 -0700) it happened "Chris M.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Jan Panteltje
As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in
Windows and Linux.

Have you ever played around with Q#?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overview

No I did not (yet)!

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Pretty interesting... :^)

Important for me, before I dive into all that, is what it can do, advantage it can give in things I code or problems I try to solve.
I will look up more of their examples...
Python is not my thing, asm and C is OK :-)

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Jan Panteltje
On a sunny day (Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:12:19 -0700) it happened "Chris M.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Jan Panteltje
As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in
Windows and Linux.

Have you ever played around with Q#?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overview

No I did not (yet)!

I messed around with it a while back. Interesting for sure. Give it a go
when you get some free time to burn. :^)

Post by Jan Panteltje

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Pretty interesting... :^)

Important for me, before I dive into all that, is what it can do, advantage it can give in things I code or problems I try to solve.
I will look up more of their examples...
Python is not my thing, asm and C is OK :-)

Fwiw, I used to do a lot of asm programming for mostly x86, SPARC and
PPC. Here is some of my older code for x86. It was for a thread
synchronization experiment of mine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060214112345/http://appcore.home.comcast.net/appcore/src/cpu/i686/ac_i686_gcc_asm.html

Those were fun times. Sun actually gave me a SunFire T2000 server for
doing good in the CoolThreads contest wrt my vZoom project:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070620081114/https://coolthreads.dev.java.net/

Way back in 2006. Wow, time does tick on by... ;^o

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:46:30 -0700) it happened "Chris M.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Jan Panteltje
On a sunny day (Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:12:19 -0700) it happened "Chris M.

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Jan Panteltje
As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in
Windows and Linux.

Have you ever played around with Q#?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overview

No I did not (yet)!

I messed around with it a while back. Interesting for sure. Give it a go
when you get some free time to burn. :^)

Post by Jan Panteltje

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Pretty interesting... :^)

Important for me, before I dive into all that, is what it can do, advantage it can give in things I code or problems I try to
solve.
I will look up more of their examples...
Python is not my thing, asm and C is OK :-)

Fwiw, I used to do a lot of asm programming for mostly x86, SPARC and
PPC. Here is some of my older code for x86. It was for a thread
https://web.archive.org/web/20060214112345/http://appcore.home.comcast.net/appcore/src/cpu/i686/ac_i686_gcc_asm.html

Nice!

I have moved to Microchip PIC asm years back, small microcontrollers,
used fo many things:
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/pic/index.html
basically have an electronics hardware background, started in the early eighties with programming
interest in crypto came when I wanted to hack some pay-TV channel...
alt.satellite.tv.europe was where it all happened...
been doing all sort of things:
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Those were fun times. Sun actually gave me a SunFire T2000 server for
https://web.archive.org/web/20070620081114/https://coolthreads.dev.java.net/
Way back in 2006. Wow, time does tick on by... ;^o

Am almost 80 years old now, still playing with code and electronics.
I was 'online' here, in the Netherlands from the nineties, win 3.1 trumpet winsock..
before that, when internet did not exist, we had 'viditel' here also online groups.
Wrote my own Usenet newsreader when moving to Linux in 1998 and I needed a replaement for Free Agent
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/index.html
sttil using it every day, now ported to a Raspberry PI4 that I use for browsing the web.

Time does fly, hope we do not have WW3, then everything will fly...

Hacking may come in handy ..am radio ham too, so bit of radio may be important.

And encrypt it in mysterious ways...
There is a lot possible in digital transmissions...
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/raspberry_pi_dvb-s_transmitter/

What you make is used later it seems:
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/quadcopter/index.html

I started coding when I bought a Sinclair ZX80.., quickly added boards I dsigned and then wrote a CP/M clone:
https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/z80/system14/index.html

[The Running Man]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Jan Panteltje
As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in Windows and Linux.

Have you ever played around with Q#?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overview
Pretty interesting... :^)

Imagine a world where quantum computers suddenly become viable. Trillions of $
in cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin) become literally worthless overnight.

That will give the financial markets quite a shock I can tell you.