Quantum computer researchers: Bitcoin encryption breakable in a few years

15 points
1/21/1970
a day ago
by croes

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freddydumont

Can anyone comment on the seemingly impossible transition from quantum computers on the order of ~150 qubits available today to systems with the 500,000 physical qubits required to break classical encryption?

Seems like quite the handwave, especially with a target as close as 2030.

a day ago

general1465

If Bitcoin encryption is breakable so soon, then what about RSA? That would be a bigger deal than a bitcoin.

20 hours ago

hulitu

Heise was, some time ago, a reliable paper. Now times seems to have changed.

10 hours ago

throwaway270925

Do you not know how the news works? This is a report about a whitepaper by Googles Quantum AI. If you want to be mad about something, be mad about Google releasing this, not the newspapers reporting the press release.

5 hours ago

Our_Benefactors

Who wants to offer me this bet?

This will be forever 5 years away, like commercial fusion

a day ago

nitwit005

You'll have to wait "forever" to win that bet.

21 hours ago

zippyman55

No, it will come five years after commercial fusion.

15 hours ago