Quantum computer researchers: Bitcoin encryption breakable in a few years
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1/21/1970
a day ago
by croes
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freddydumont
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
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.