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Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by CodeWriter23 on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:51PM (#21686755)
Serious question: does this mean any developer with a credit card can now break our strongest crypto?
Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by archgoon on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:56PM (#21686821)
No.

Even if Amazon had worked out an agreement with Google to run arbitrary algorithms on a 53 qubit computer; that would not be enough to run Shors algorithm (which only breaks RSA and Elliptic Curve) on normal keys. This is also pretending that Google's 53 qubit computer were full, error corrected, logical qubits.

Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by dshields1 on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:56PM (#21686818)
No. We’re still a long way from quantum computers powerful enough for that.
Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by randomsearch on Monday December 02, 2019 @06:44PM (#21688372)
Indeed. We currently have machines with ~ 50 qubits and we’d need likely 10s of millions of qubits.
Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by kortilla on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:00PM (#21687498)
No, and there’s no evidence so far that anyone on the planet has a quantum computer capable of running shors algorithm in any useful capacity,
Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by Pokepokalypse on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:23AM (#21699830)
. . . because if they had the necessary hardware, and expertise, they'd totally be dumb enough to leak evidence.
Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by ipnon on Monday December 02, 2019 @04:00PM (#21686865)
There is no evidence of quantum computers breaking ciphers en masse.
Re:Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing by Zarath on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:21PM (#21689042)
You're simulating a quantum computer with a classical computer. So if you can break crypto with a classical computer, then yes.