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Is your approach here to focus on the theoretical background or is it also to comment on feasibility on hardware in the next x years?
by mikorym 7y ago
Is your approach here to focus on the theoretical background or is it also to comment on feasibility on hardware in the next x years?
- Strilanc 7y agoI'm having a hard time parsing your question. Our goal in this paper was to better understand the resources required to factor with a quantum computer. These estimates can then be fed into decisions about the rate post-quantum cryptosystems need to be deployed. We don't make predictions about the expected capabilities of hardware over time. We do frame our results in terms of specific hardware assumptions (e.g. particular gate speeds and errors rates), but most of the improvements we make are about how to do arithmetic and so they generalize beyond these assumptions.
- mikorym 7y agoCool, I think that does answer my question. You do both, but the feasibility part is in the form of hardware assumptions that don't comment on the current or future state of hardware.