Status
On July 9, 2004, the creator of Entropy announced that he had stopped work on the project amid uncertainty about the security of the included algorithms, namely the McEliece cryptosystem.
McEliece has been proven resistant to attack by Quantum Fourier Sampling as used by Shor's algorithm.
Read more about this topic: Entropy (anonymous Data Store)
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