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Newbie's question: how far is the RCS benchmark from a more practical challenge such as breaking RSA? The article concludes by saying that the former does not
by whiplash451 2y ago
Newbie's question: how far is the RCS benchmark from a more practical challenge such as breaking RSA?
The article concludes by saying that the former does not have practical applications. Why are they not using benchmarks that have some?
- Hilift 2y agoThere are already companies selling 5,000+ qubit quantum systems to the NSA. I would assume they are already using it for that in the huge data center in Utah.
- underdeserver 2y agoWhich companies? And how big an RSA key do 5,000+ qubit quantum systems break?
- makeworld 2y agoSource?
- wasabi991011 2y agoVery far. I'm not sure how to put it quantitatively, but my impression from listening to experts give technical presentations is that the breaking-rsa-type algorithms are a decade or two away. This is very soon from a security perspective, as all you need is to store current data and break it in the future. But it is not soon enough to use for benchmarking current systems.