The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.
  • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah, but RSA has been considered insecure for a while now because this attack was theorized.

    Still, I’m sure there is a lot of RSA encryption out there through hardware keys and ssl certs and such…