OpenSSH 8 will have Quantum-Computing Resistant Key Exchange

https://codesmithdev.com/openssh-8-0-releasing-with-quantum-computing-resistant-keys/

There is a two page summary of this by a working group here: https://www.quintessencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/CSA-What-is-Quantum-Key-Distribution-QKD-1.pdf

I don’t really grok quantum computing or encryption at all.

But it certainly sounds cyberpunk as hell. I also do grok a little of the broad stokes of the challenges quantum computing poses to traditional cryptography and its pretty groovy that we’re rising to meet them.

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