cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24515831
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.
Paper: http://cjc.ict.ac.cn/online/onlinepaper/wc-202458160402.pdf
Follow up to https://lemmy.ca/post/30853830
It means that if quantum technology improves, the same technique can break higher bit integers. So it’s in fact broken, we just don’t have the future hardware to execute it on yet.