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Lattice-Based vs Hash-Based vs Code-Based Signatures
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Lattice-Based vs Hash-Based vs Code-Based Signatures

Most coverage of post-quantum signature schemes ranks them by signature size, computational cost, key length, and benchmark performance. Useful enough....
NIST’s PQC Standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon, HQC) Explained
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NIST’s PQC Standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon, HQC) Explained

Let’s say you have one job. Pick the cryptographic algorithms that will protect everyone’s data after quantum computers exist. You...
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Quantum Computing Threat to Cryptocurrency, in Plain English
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Quantum Computing Threat to Cryptocurrency, in Plain English

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is the family of encryption and signature algorithms built to survive attacks from quantum computers, and despite...
Seed Phrases vs PQC: What Changes for Self-Custody
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Seed Phrases vs PQC: What Changes for Self-Custody

What’s the headline that scares you most? For me it would certainly be “Bitcoin Moves to Post-Quantum Cryptography, All Existing...
Multisig, MPC, and Threshold Signatures: Do They Survive Q-Day?
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Multisig, MPC, and Threshold Signatures: Do They Survive Q-Day?

Here’s the question people actually mean when they ask this one: “I moved my coins into a 2-of-3 multisig, or...
Address Reuse: The New Quantum Security Flaw
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Address Reuse: The New Quantum Security Flaw

It’s 2017. You set up one Bitcoin address as your “main one” because you needed somewhere clean for friends to...
Should Bitcoin Freeze Satoshi’s Coins? CZ Thinks So
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Should Bitcoin Freeze Satoshi’s Coins? CZ Thinks So

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has reopened one of crypto’s touchiest debates with a proposal to freeze the 1 million dormant...
Hot Wallets vs Cold Wallets in a Post-Quantum World
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Hot Wallets vs Cold Wallets in a Post-Quantum World

Hardware wallet in a safe. Hot wallet on your phone. Most Bitcoiners think the hard work of self-custody is the...
Which Bitcoin Addresses Are Quantum-Vulnerable, and Is Bitcoin Quantum-Resistant?
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Which Bitcoin Addresses Are Quantum-Vulnerable, and Is Bitcoin Quantum-Resistant?

Bitcoin uses ECDSA, and since Taproot activated in 2021, also Schnorr signatures. Both fall to Shor’s algorithm running on a...
Why Qubit Count Headlines Are Misleading (Logical vs Physical Qubits)
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Why Qubit Count Headlines Are Misleading (Logical vs Physical Qubits)

Every few months a headline announces a new milestone in quantum computing. IBM and Atom Computing have both crossed the...