2017

>NSA wants to rush post-quantum cryptography
This is because the NSA has backdoored many post-quantum algorithms, not because they're afraid of quantum computers.

I don't understand cryptology enough to know why people are concerned about this.

Isn't the whole idea:

>Quantum computers can handle multiple states
>This reduces the time to bruteforce a key down to a reasonable amount

Why not just increase the number of bits? Double them or quadruple them, or whatever amount is needed in order to normalize the difference, thereby eliminating the advantages conferred by quantum computers.

Gene therapy research is actually pretty heavily regulated. OHRP and FDA seem to have full authority over research. OHPR mandates that any research would have to pass through several ethical review boards would also be evaluated by FDA's Center for Biologis Evaluation and Research. NIH has a Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, which has another set of guidelines and regulations for federally funded research.

Simply increasing key size makes it so a lot of embedded systems are no longer capable of secure communication. It also doesn't buy you as much time as switching to a quantum-safe cryptosystem.

It doesn't matter though, these regulations only exist because "reasons" and moral panic. China is already doing far more work than the US in this field because of the lack of regulations, and this will allow them to get at least a one to perhaps two generation lead on America if these changes yield any practical results.

This has potentially massive repercussions, and it isn't like you can just tell China: "No, stop making your kids better, that isn't fair." They'll just ignore you.

I agree with you about the inevitability of it once China does it, but China has such huge inequality that the vast majority of their population won't benefit from it for years. That 16 million number of gattaca kids is very much inflated. And if any sort of mandate happens with that stuff, their birth rate will plummet more.

That's the thing, the Party doesn't fuck around. They're an extremely powerful bureaucracy. If it is drilled into the heads of the rural poor that they MUST go to the government first, they'll do that. I state this with absolute conviction because the One-Child Policy was ruthlessly enforced, even in the most rural areas of the country. If this sort of program is introduced, and it isn't restricted to just the cities (which are even more regulated), I guarantee you we will see a lot more abortions or dead Asian babies because you didn't go through the right hoops in order to have that kid. 9 months is fuck all to the government. They know that the parents are forced to try and conceive because of their livelihood, so even if they don't want to - they got to. Which will lead to this permeating through every echelon of their society.

There is a clinical study of gene therapy in lung cancer in adult humans right now in China.

They are literally altering the genomes of patients via a viral vector and CRISPR-altered cells at this moment.

So yea. The China is the first to alter the genome is full-grown humans.

CRISPR is so cheap, you can get a kit and order plasmids at home to edit bacterial DNA.

In fact, the cheapness of the technology is that actually worries bioethicists and biologists, not its cost.

The huge costs arise from clinical study bureaucracy. The actual gene editing and injection of alteted cells with a viral vector costs very little.

I am sure a geek microbiologist could test gene editing on himself at home, even right now.

Except, I am sure there are only single crazy people in the world like that at the moment.

That one neuroscientist who went to like Bolivia or wherever to voluntarily have an implant of his own design stuck into his brain for a week would probably be up to it.