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If and when quantum computing does start making waves, I expect the security guys will start loudly crowing about it.
Its ostensible ability to break most regular encryption schemes over its knee would be a complete fucking nightmare for them, that's for sure.
The problem is that to start breaking encryption you need quantum computing with a bunch of qubits as originally defined and not "our lawyer signed off on the claim that we have 1000 qubits".
"Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog"
holy shit how have i never heard of this paper
thank you for sharing!
it's really recent. I think I saw it like 2 weeks ago? via the IACR toot feed iirc