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what are the implications with regard to encryption and crypto, if any?

• upofadown 6y ago
  This is only about speeding up the support stuff. No actual quantum improvement is discussed. There is a tremendous amount of misinformation floating around on this topic. The short answer is that we are not even close to starting yet. This has a good discussion: * https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-integer-factored-by-shors-algorithm https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-int... Note the new and exciting estimate of only 20 million physical qubits required to crack RSA 2048. The article mentions the hope of achieving 1000 physical qubits.
  • ceejayoz 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count 1,000 on a chip in 1970. 20M by the late 1990s or so.
• hannob 6y ago
  None at all.
• xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
  Does "crypto" refer to the branch of mathematics or to the scam? It has substantial theoretical implications in cryptography, but any practical applications are decades off. Cryptocurrency couldn't get any more broken, so it has no implications for that.
  • core-questions 6y ago
    > Cryptocurrency couldn't get any more broken So you have a way to steal Bitcoins?