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Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.

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[–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The difference is that 10 years ago you needed billions of stable qubits, now you need 10k stable qubits.

And 10 years ago you had one or two stable qubits in the lab, now you have thousands.

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