Google claims to have proved its supremacy over conventional machines with new quantum computer

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

I hope it won’t.

  •  argv_minus_one   ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 
    8•1 year ago

    “128-bit” usually refers to symmetric encryption, which is not broken by Shor’s algorithm. 4096-bit RSA is what Shor’s algorithm needs to break, and it’s going to take a lot more than 70 qubits to do that. Like, two orders of magnitude more.