alt Hacker NewsNewbie's question: how far is the RCS benchmark from a more practical challenge such as breaking RSA?
The article concludes by saying that the former does not have practical applications. Why are they not using benchmarks that have some?
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Hilift • 12/10/2024
There are already companies selling 5,000+ qubit quantum systems to the NSA. I would assume they are already using it for that in the huge data center in Utah.
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Very far.
I'm not sure how to put it quantitatively, but my impression from listening to experts give technical presentations is that the breaking-rsa-type algorithms are a decade or two away.
This is very soon from a security perspective, as all you need is to store current data and break it in the future. But it is not soon enough to use for benchmarking current systems.