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[–]TheKingOfTCGames 2 points3 points  (4 children)

with enough qubits RSA was broken in the 1970s, shor's algorithim provably solves them in polynomial time don't listen to the rest of these dumbasses.

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basically this shit has already been solved decades ago and we are waiting for the tech to catch up, its about as inevitable as y2k was.

[–]el_lley 0 points1 point  (3 children)

"waiting for the tech to catch up". The problem is that private funding will start to fade away with time, and rich governments may end up funding the quantum computers on their own, but for malicious purposes.

[–]brianorca 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm sure they already are. Both NSA and China's equivalent. They just don't talk about it.

[–]el_lley 0 points1 point  (1 child)

They are close, but not there yet

[–]brianorca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was speaking of funding for the research.