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mthiim | 2 years ago

Yes absolutely: If both security elements fail (quantum computers that break classical crypto appear, and the supposed post-quantum element turns out to be insecure as well) then you're screwed. By combining you get a chain is as strong as the strongest link - but not stronger! The motivation with combining is to avoid a scenario where you start using a new post-quantum algorithm which turns out to be really insecure (like happened to SPHINCS+) so you're actually worse off.

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