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I think you have a wrong idea here about quantum computers. It is not likely that they will end up on your desk any time soon. What is likely going to happen a
by hannob 11y ago
I think you have a wrong idea here about quantum computers. It is not likely that they will end up on your desk any time soon.
What is likely going to happen at first is that for very specialized problems there will be large scale quantum computers. Think of them as complex physical experiments, occupying whole rooms with delicate equipment. That will be the reality of quantum computing for quite some time. If they ever end up on a desk is hard to tell, but that's really science fiction, it's like asking whether we'll visit foreign planets in the future.
That means unless you are working in a very specialized environment quantum computers are irrelevant for you as a developer except that you'll likely use different crypto algorithms in the future. But you will use different crypto that still runs on classical computers.
- personlurking 11y agoPardon my ignorance on the matter but, in regards to your last sentence, you mean it'll be possible for classical computer crypto to withstand QC brute force?
- hannob 11y agoQC don't "brute-force", that's an inaccurate description of how they work. But to answer your question, yes, it is possible to have classical computers with crypto that withstand QC attacks. There's a whole research field on postquantum crypto, e.g. have a look at http://pqcrypto.eu.org/ http://pqcrypto.eu.org/