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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/
12•alt227•7mo ago

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gnabgib•7mo ago
Discussion (28 points, 2 months ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952396
gus_massa•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.