Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on March 23, 2016, 10:45:58 AM

I didn't like user experience with the current GUI because of necessity to use another address each time. Even in Bitcoin it's possible to reuse addresses. I'll change the security scheme of addresses, this will take several days. As a side-effect GUI will need to change. Genesis addresses will change too, we'll add a special procedure for translation of addresses from old to new format upon the first authorization in the wallet. All this will make user experience and utility of Iota much better.

PS: Those who sent iotas to addresses with index 1+ should send them back to the genesis address (or an address generated with index = 0) by the 26th of March 13:00 UTC. Those who know how to send iotas via API calls can send them to the buyers (to addresses generated with index = 0 only). After the deadline I'll publish the list of addresses (in old format) and corresponding balances. This list will be used for conversion from old to new format, escrow agents can rely on it to finalize some of the trades.

Will this affect the quantum computing resilience of IOTA transactions and address keys from being hacked?

Also, is this change a modification to the SaM hashing algorithm or is this strictly a modification to address and signature generation?