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China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer
https://www.earth.com/news/china-breaks-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer-threatening-global-data-security/
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alt227
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7mo ago
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gnabgib
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7mo ago
Discussion (28 points, 2 months ago, 20 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952396
gus_massa
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7mo ago
Also, the comments in the previous post explain that the two factors are essentially the square root of the key pus minus ~6. So it can be done with a calculator that has sqr and a few tries.
gnabgib•7mo ago
gus_massa•7mo ago