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“If they do not, cryptographers have shown, then secure cryptography is impossible.”

Erica Klarreichquantamagazine.org ↗

Every card payment and digital signature rests on functions nobody has proven are one-way. Rafael Pass and Yanyi Liu tied their existence to a single question about Kolmogorov complexity. That proves nothing is secure. It just puts every bet on one table. Lewis Carroll called the Vigenère cipher unbreakable five years after someone broke it.