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IshKebabtoday at 9:50 AM1 replyview on HN

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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somenameformetoday at 12:16 PM

I expect they're just banking on getting their investment back with some fat returns by licensing it to the NSA to decrypt their hoovered up encrypted coms, with their data storage now reaching up to the yottabyte level. That's a lotta byte.