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RE: Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
This almost borders on unbelievable for me! My first thought was, "Why would Google do something like this, considering how engrossed they are in the censorship and the surveillance of our lives and thoughts?!"
I had the same reaction to this, and also to encrypted gmail. It definitely seems like it runs counter to their business model.
Unless the objective is to eliminate the competition? Or to appear like the "good guy" superficially as a public relations tactic in these times of bad publicity? I'm of the belief that all of this unhackable encryption (blockchain included) will become a thing of the past when quantum computers advance further. Everything we have at the moment is based on binary code of 1s and 0s, but when a third layer of bits is added, hacking will go to a whole new level!!!
True. Researchers are already working on encryption algorithms that are resistant to quantum computing, but it will take years to replace the existing techniques, and there will almost certainly be some platforms that don't get updated in time.