Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory 📦

1    23 Mar 2021 12:31 by u/SEELE

One step closer to the end of traditional cryptography...

2 comments

1 u/None 23 Mar 2021 12:42
Not bad (the quantum computer research is massively impressive, I wish I'd understood 1 % of that stuff) but still a long way to go. Who uses RSA 2048 in this day and age anyway?
3 u/SEELE [OP] 23 Mar 2021 12:49
Hopefully nobody, but you never know. I've already moved to quantum-resistant algos but even those aren't certain to be bulletproof. I figure things will go like they did with current computing, first room-sized vacuum tube computers that are slow as dirt and then rapid improvements as people find cheaper and smaller ways to do things.