Thursday, June 11, 2026

Distribution of primes for the nonce

RSA disgrace recedes into the dawn of time

 Physicists achieve 'perfect randomness' in breakthrough quantum experiment | Live Science

This relies on quantum bits. Or does it?

Q-day is now a classic crisis as opportunity. Quantum encryption being the gold-standard for cryptoanarchism. 

ORWELL - Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police State. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a “peace that is no peace”.

Tribune, 19 October 1945

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