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Bruce Schneier has written that quantum computers only halve the effective number of bits for symmetric encryption algorithms, which seem more closely analogous to hashing than factoring. That would be a giant leap in mining capability, but perhaps not so much as to cause collapse. Switching to 512-bit hashes would bring us back to where we are now.


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