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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by partycoder on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:14AM (#13845317)
Current quantum computers lack the amount of qubits required to implement practical quantum integer factorization (e.g: Shor's algorithm) at the scale required to break encryption.

For example the NIST standard for the controversial dual eliptic curve deterministic random bit generator standard, involves two numbers, p and q, which are 100 digit long. To date, largest integer factored in a quantum computer is reported to be around 200,000...

Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by shshhdhs on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:01AM (#13845428)
200,000 what? Digits? Bits?
Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by rocqua on Saturday March 11, 2017 @09:16AM (#13845455)
the largest number was 200,000 i.e. 6 digits or about 21 bits
Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by smaddox on Saturday March 11, 2017 @10:42AM (#13845745)
20 bits > 1,000,000