[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Reject OpenPGP data over 1MiB (PR #1942)

Demi Marie Obenour notifications at github.com
Tue Mar 15 09:30:26 UTC 2022


> > I know I'm going to regret asking this, but WTF are post-quantum signatures and keys?
> 
> The short answer is that quantum computers are [really, really good at factoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm). That's bad for RSA, because it relies on factoring being really hard.

Not just factoring, but also discrete logarithms.  That breaks DSA, ECDSA, EdDSA, and Diffe-Hellman.

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