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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] AynRandLibertarian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh you're just loving this aren't you? 😂

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

How could you tell??

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Prime factorisation is indeed nobody's primary idea of what a quantum computer will be useful for in practice any time soon, but it cannot be denied that Shor's algorithm is the first and only method of prime factorisation we have discovered which can finish in realistic time with realistic resources.

And that means that RSA is no longer as safe as it once was, justifying the process of finding alternatives.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry - did you read the slides?

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Indeed I did. They seem to be pointing to the fact that current machines are not factoring primes in any serious way.

Does this contradict my point?