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Re:Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World by cJ0th on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:21PM (#15690842)
> Think of it this way: A quantum computer could instantly crack the encryption that protects the world’s most private data.

How can they be so sure that no one uses symmetric encryption algorithms? I get that this article is meant for lay people but that does not make it alright to throw around false superlatives.

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Re:Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World by goialoq on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:23PM (#15690855)
The article is complete garbage.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

"If you take just one piece of information from this blog: Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once."

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