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wasabi991011
17 days ago
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Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Because this result is still very far from anything related to practical decryption.
jgalt212
17 days ago
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And if they were, would they tell the world?
tsimionescu
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If they had a QC that could run Shor's algorithm to factor the number 1000, I'd guarantee you they'd tell the whole world. And it would still be a long,
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time from there to having a QC that can factor 2048-bit numbers.
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