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Investigate modern post-quantum encryption/signature options e.g. McEliece #94

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StrangeTcy opened this issue Jul 29, 2017 · 2 comments

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@StrangeTcy
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This repo has a great gpg-like application for dealing with it; I think it wouldn't be too hard to implement in bote.

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str4d commented Oct 12, 2017

It's certainly a possibility, and if someone wrote a PR for it then I'd certainly review it :)

Before adding a new option however, we should think about whether there's a better format for Bote addresses (than just sticking the two public keys together). We should also think about the different trade-offs of the various post-quantum schemes (now that there has been significantly more research on them).

@str4d str4d changed the title [Question] Could we add McEliece to bote encryption options? Investigate modern post-quantum encryption/signature options e.g. McEliece Oct 12, 2017
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McEliece Keys are ungodly huge. From the GoldBug Encryption program a McEliece Public Key is 8.1 MB. Yeah I exported it to a text file and looked at the size myself.

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