A quote from a consultation I did this morning: "A QC capable of Shor's Algorithm is decades away, if at all possible." My reasoning was that you can do convol

A quote from a consultation I did this morning: "A QC capable of Shor's Algorithm is decades away, if at all possible." My reasoning was that you can do convoluted physics experiments simulating degree 1 qbits (2, 3 or 4) but raising the order of magnitude might be close to impossible given the physics we know. If we could manage to do 5-10 (2 degrees) in silicone, we should have engineering to do 6 degrees since we know a lot about the material. I was asked who was the largest stakeholder in QC. I said it probably was not the NSA since that's the obvious one. I've since had the thought that the NSA might be an anti-stakeholder, that they would be better off if QC isn't realized. They have pretty good leakage from current crypto systems. If the world is forced to move away from it, they have to break a whole new suite of cyphersystems.