QRL Weekly, 2023-October-31
31st October 2023
Weekly Development Snapshot
- Increased p2p status response timeout, fixing the timeout resulting into p2p ban
- Changed signature and public key data type
- Added updates from upstream till v4.0.8 into beacon client
- Released new testnet with the latest changes
- internal tooling for node testing
Quantum News
Time to get serious about the dangers of quantum computing
On 30 Oct 2023: In so-called “harvest now, decrypt later” (HNDL) attacks, experts have theorised that rogue nation-states and cybercriminals could hoover up masses of encrypted data with the express intention of waiting until the moment when it can be decoded with great ceremony by a quantum computer.
But is this a reality? Andersen Cheng, the person who coined the term 'harvest now, decrypt later', says the hedas of multiple Western intelligence agencies have warned that HNDL attacks are happening "right in front of our eyes", so much that it's evolved into an initialism. - techmonitor.ai
31st October 2023
