@Derek Ross What do you think? Is quantum resistance a current concern of developers for Nostr? And is anything worked on in that regard? I know that TutaMail recently announced that they prepared their email encryption for the quantum times.
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Current estimates suggest that breaking secp256k1 would require a quantum computer with millions of qubits. Our best is 1,000 today. IBM what's to hit 100K in 20233. I believe we have time to solve this.
As far as i can tell no one from nostr dev's is taking the threat serious as of yet. It is a serious risk. I estimate in 5 years quantum computers will be powerful enough to run Shor's algorithm. Which well let the quantum computer calculate the private key from the public key.
So even when nostr becomes post quantum proof, every user would need to migrate to a new account. as the old account would become hackable with quantum computers
typo: 2033 is the year IBM projects 100k qbits.