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josefxtoday at 6:20 AM2 repliesview on HN

Dont they report an advantage based on simulating quantum effects every other year? I was promissed a quick way to decrypt my old harddrives decades ago, can we have that at some point before the sun burns out?


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mistercowtoday at 10:25 AM

Are your old hard drives encrypted using asymmetric cryptography? If not, I'm not sure who made you that promise.

IshKebabtoday at 9:50 AM

The funny thing is we already have PQC so even if quantum computing works, it will be immediately irrelevant.

At least for breaking crypto, which seems to be its headline feature. Maybe there are other useful things it can do?

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