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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
by 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 agohttps://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.