Is it akin to the revolutionary code-breaking system from Digital Fortress called TRANSLTR?

I hope it won’t.

    • Pseu ( Pseu@beehaw.org ) 
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      3 years ago

      As a 70-qubit quantum computer, it’s not going to be doing many helpful calculations. The benchmark used is random circuit sampling, which is doing a bunch of random quantum operations, and then reading the result, and it is compared to a supercomputer simulating the various random operations. This algorithm isn’t useful outside of benchmarking.

      This also makes Sycamore a particularly ineffective “weapon” considering that we don’t really use encryption that’s less than 1024 bits, which is well outside of the capability of our current quantum computers.

      • fearout ( fearout@kbin.social ) 
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        3 years ago

        I mean, there’s not much you can currently do on quantum computers. It’s basically either cracking encryptions or folding proteins at this point.

        And quantum-proof encryption already exists.

        (I’m oversimplifying, but quantum computer isn’t a faster computer. It’s just one that can solve a really narrow problem set faster. But you need a task that’s basically find 1 random correct answer out of these lots of possibilities. It won’t run Crysis. )