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Are P2WSH addresses the most quantum-secure addresses?

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I know, large-scale quantum computers are a thing of the future, if they are even possible. Take this as a question from a normal guy trying to wrap his head around the cryptography used in bitcoin.

Imagine the situation where you create an address on an offline computer and then send funds to it. The only thing leaked to the public is the address.

P2WPKH, P2PKH and P2SH all use RIPEMD-160 and are thus 80 bit quantum-secure. (Grover's algo)

With P2TR (and P2PK, P2MS), the public key is public. The ECC used there is susceptible to Shor's algorithm, so P2TR addresses are even more vulnerable to quantum compuers than P2WPKH addresses.

P2WSH addresses are SHA256 hashes of a script and thus 128bit quantum secure, making it the most quantum-resistant address type.

In total, P2WSH addresses have the highest security against quantum computers, namely 128 bits. (An obvious downside is, that only one hash function is used. If SHA256 has some flaw, the script containing the public keys of the multisig is leaked and from that, a quantum computer can use Shor to get the private keys.)

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