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

Open StrangeTcy opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

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

StrangeTcy avatar Jul 29 '17 13:07 StrangeTcy

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 avatar Oct 12 '17 21:10 str4d

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.

WAR10CKfreeworld avatar Nov 11 '17 15:11 WAR10CKfreeworld